The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

In 1981, HSN began marketing products on a local-access cable television channel. By 1985, it was broadcasting nationally. The c ...

named Charles Ginsburg began leading a research team at the Ampex Corporation. Two years before his death, Ginsburg would be ind ...

released the movie on video in 1987 at a price of $29.95 and, by 1988, had sold 3.2 million copies—a record that would last unti ...

conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), released in 1984, esti- mated that there were between 2 ...

patients in U.S. mental institutions numbered more than 550,000. In 1980, the figure was slightly less than 120,000. Since much ...

placed some of the burden of homelessness on the federal government. This legislation provided a multi-part response that not on ...

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Homosexuality and gay rights The Eighties in America 1980 The Human Rights Campaign Fund is founded as a political action ...

men, the disease was initially labeled gay-related im- mune deficiency (GRID). Public scrutiny fell onto the group most traumati ...

corral the spread of AIDS, once its sexually transmit- ted nature had been identified. The facilities tried to remain open by ag ...

Bowers v. Hardwick In 1986, a case of extreme im- port to gay and lesbian rights came before the U.S. Supreme Court. Michael Har ...

Diversity Across Nations.Philadelphia: Temple Uni- versity Press, 1999. Focuses on gains within the la- bor movement in the Unit ...

King’s novel;The Fly(1986), a radical reinvention of the Vincent Price film; andDead Ringers(1988), the disturbing tale of twin ...

Further Reading Gingold, Michael. “History of Horror: The 1980’s.” InFangoria’s Best Horror Films, edited by Anthony Timpone. Av ...

used by political opponents against presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, who as governor of Massachusetts sup- ported the fur ...

by pundits to have influenced the election in Bush’s favor, though it is doubtful that Dukakis would have beat Bush even if thes ...

which earned an American Music Award, and “Saving All My Love for You,” which won both a Grammy Award and an American Music Awar ...

tension in the New York City area during the late 1980’s, including the murder of Yusef Hawkins in the New York City neighborhoo ...

Further Reading Atack, Jon.A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics, and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. New York: Carol, 1990. Hubba ...

wood during his lifetime: He dated women, married Phyllis Gates in 1955, and kept his private life out of the press. He believed ...

films, but he remained a prolific writer and pro- ducer into the twenty-first century. He is best known, however, for his 1980’s ...