The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Farm crisis Definition Foreclosure on thousands of American farms, particularly in the Midwest Date Took place between 1981 an ...

price supports in order to allow the marketplace to determine price. The FmHA would no longer loan money to farmers but would wo ...

enced by and contributed to American popular cul- ture. Pop star Madonna and the movieFlashdance (1983), for example, both inspi ...

another era. Karl Lagerfeld, a Paris designer, used a variety of historical sources for his 1980’s designs and was especially in ...

their brand Air Max. Leather high-tops became fash- ionable as well. Trendy underwear was worn by men as well as women. With bas ...

the film’s transitional character. The freshman has lost her virginity, maintains a part-time job at the mall, and is close frie ...

made most clear by the decision to change the end- ing of the film. In the original ending, Alex commits suicide in such a way a ...

Further Reading Ceccarelli, Marco, ed.International Symposium on His- tor y of Machines and Mechanisms Proceedings.New York: Spr ...

O’Connor became the first female Supreme Court justice and Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated as a vice presidentia ...

Watkins, Susan Alice, Marisa Rueda, and Marta Ro- driguez. Introducing Feminism. Cambridge, En- gland: Icon Books, 1999. An acce ...

cated that a majority of female voters had voted for the opposition. Women did later begin to vote for Democrats to a greater de ...

tal surgery in the United States on a fetus with uri- nary tract obstruction, facilitating the flow of fetal urine from the blad ...

ment. Such films were defined as motion pictures with running times of more than seventy-five min- utes whose producer and two-t ...

Further Reading Beard, William, and Jerry White, eds.North of Ever y- thing: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980.Ed- monton: Univ ...

to demand more money in return for videocassette and cable distribution rights. Revenue from VCR and cable television distributi ...

Mixing science fiction with nostalgia for happier days, Robert Zemeckis directedBack to the Future (1985)—an instant hit in whic ...

port or control. Despite difficulties in raising neces- sary funds, many directors enjoy the opportunities for experimentation a ...

A great many neo-noirs were made by indepen- dent directors during the 1980’s, because this genre can often be cheaply made.Bloo ...

Further Reading Belton, John.American Cinema/American Culture.2d ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2005. An introduction to American cine ...

Congress passed the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which removed the proviso of the Texas law that the act of desecration had to b ...