Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More Fun in the New World (Elektra). The New Wave rolls on: if William S. Burroughs fronted a garage band, it would sound like this...
While putting a squeeze on workers, the steel companies continued their campaign in Washington for greater protection from imports, which have captured 19.6% of the American market. Though Western Europe and Japan have curbed their steel exports to the U.S., a new wave of shipments is flowing in from Brazil, South Korea and Mexico. Steel executives argue that these exports are subsidized by foreign governments and that the U.S. should retaliate with import quotas...
...recent wave of nostalgia for a presumably friendlier, less menacing world of the past is beginning to have an effect on design. America's sudden love affair with old buildings, almost any old buildings, is prompting the architects of new buildings to work with traditional forms and ornamentation. The renewed appreciation of older cities is giving more emphasis to the importance of livable urban design. Indoors, designers are beginning to domesticate some of the gadgets that are beeping us, buzzing us, little-red-light-flashing us and computer-accessing us into an awesome and intriguing electronic future...
...view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage, 71, and Philip Glass, 46, Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 64, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, 57, Rock Singer Peter Gabriel, 33, and Cellist Charlotte Moorman, 44, once celebrated for her topless playing. Directed by Paik from the Pompidou Center in Paris...
...publicizing the plight of Britain's some 450 Thalidomide children, afflicted with terrible birth defects because their mothers had taken the medicine during pregnancy. Litigation between parents and the drug's manufacturer had dragged on for a decade, in legally ordained secrecy. Evans' campaign spurred a wave of indignation on the victims' behalf and hastened an adequate settlement...