The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

ment and many upper-class citizens would flee to the United States, followed by relatives and friends. The next wave of immigran ...

name of Martin Sheen, in honor of the famous tele- vision host Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Sheen be- came a star with the success o ...

Mintzer, Richard.Latino Americans in Sports, Film, Music, and Government: Trailblazers.Broomall, Pa.: Mason Crest, 2005. A volum ...

to the eye as well as the ear. Lauper’s second hit sin- gle, “Time After Time,” was a very different song from her first. It was ...

bohemian chic, as the wearer could be said to pos- sess a heightened sense of the physical self. By the middle of the decade, le ...

Lemieux was a superstar in the league, recording his greatest regular season performance in that season. He scored 85 goals and ...

Thomson, Christopher S.The Tour de France: A Cul- tural Histor y.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Margot Irvine a ...

humousMilk and Honey,Live in New York City(1986), andMenlove Ave.(1986) sold well. Lennon influ- enced many musicians popular in ...

following November. While Leonard attempted to battle head-to-head with Duran in the first fight, he boxed far more skillfully i ...

and thoroughly rehearsed, but the interviews with the show’s guests were not. This situation—given Letterman’s willingness to ne ...

told the Québécois that he would act to alter the Ca- nadian constitution to recognize Quebec’s distinc- tive position within Ca ...

Los Angeles: the long jump, 100-meter dash, 200- meter dash, and 4 × 100-meter relay race. He de- clared his intention to equal ...

Liberalism and Two-Party Politics Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomina ...

Detailed study of the 1988 presidential elec- tion that includes an analysis of the ideological and policy conflicts between li ...

St. John, Ronald Bruce.Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 200 ...

New Developments A younger wave of writers in- cluded Guy Vanderhaeghe, who explored post- modern masculinity inMan Descending(1 ...

During the 1980’s, three immigrant authors—Czes- uaw Miuosz, Joseph Brodsky, and Elie Wiesel— received Nobel Prizes (Wiesel’s wa ...

Gore Vidal continued his project of providing a pointed, fictionalized version of American history. Ironweed(1983) andQuinn’s Bo ...

tino to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Although the new Latino literature would not fully flower for an- other decade, one o ...

lect, indicting mass culture for the dissolution and dissipation of that aristocracy. A few books judged by tastemakers to posse ...