Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever wider array of influences from abroad. One week there is talk of a Disney-style amusement park for southern Peking. The next, General Motors delivers a fleet of 20 Cadillac limousines to be used by visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley of the Ming Tombs, with prospects of ski slopes, a racetrack and a hotel to be built...
...lengthy roster of new crime fighters is, if nothing else, diverse. Robert Wagner is leaden as ever as a high-living investigator for an insurance company in the dreary Lime Street. The Insiders uses a rock score to enliven the weekly adventures of a hip free-lance reporter and his partner who go undercover for stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard...
...longer is AIDS regarded as a "gay plague" that strikes down only promiscuous male homosexuals or heavy intravenous-drug users. Now children and heterosexuals are seen as vulnerable. The disclosure in July that Actor Rock Hudson suffers from AIDS has made the public more aware and helped generate more funding for AIDS-related research. Yet the publicity seems to have created more fear than understanding in U.S. communities...
...concerts are just one barometer of the Springsteen-New Jersey movement. Sales of his 1984 album, "Born in the U.S.A.," have reached 5 million. Singles from that album still dominate both AM and FM. Even The New York Times loves him: "Like every rock megastar, he has crystallized something millions of people are thinking about...He has clearly struck a nerve...
...summer could barely hold a candle to Faber's. She estimated that the Los Angeles firm she worked for spent $100,000 for each of its 21 clerks. Faber was treated to $100 lunches, theater theatre tickets, unlimited baseball tickets, and three rock concerts including Katrina and the Waves...