The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Matters reached a head in 1984, when the vio- lence in two Steven Spielberg films sparked national outcries. BothIndiana Jones a ...

repeat business, a rarity on Broadway. The show spawned three national tours and a long-running Los Angeles production. Two of i ...

dom of expression and the public funding of con- temporary art. Philosophical Underpinnings Much of the photog- raphy of the 198 ...

lery feared that Congress would object to the exhibi- tion’s content. Another controversial photographer of the decade was André ...

placed on the small percentage of women who fit within these narrow parameters of American beauty— and even images of those wome ...

increased objectification and the idealization of women’s bodies and faces, including the com- mercial applications of the beaut ...

murdered by one’s fellow soldiers, as well as by the enemy. In some ways,Platoonmight be considered one of the most important sa ...

The 1982 NCAA football game between California and Stanford had little meaning apart from the intense rivalr y between its parti ...

gan to celebrate, the ball flew out of the pile back to Rodgers, who raced across the field with a pack of teammates close behin ...

collectionAfter We Lost Our Wayselected for the tenth annual National Poetry Series in 1989. Women in the 1960’s, many caught up ...

Poindexter, John Identification U.S. Navy admiral and Iran-Contra defendant Born August 12, 1936; Odon, Indiana Poindexter was ...

In the early twenty-first century, Poindexter was employed in the George W. Bush administration to design and oversee computer s ...

warned of substituting subjectivity for historical ob- jectivity and of the lack of intellectual freedom im- posed by political ...

new, race-transcending syntheses gave voice to such nonmusical ideals as the judging of people by the content of their character ...

they summarized a great deal of the pop-music senti- ment that had by then taken hold. One notable exception to the decade’s ove ...

spots that they were, rather than becoming the driv- ing force behind their careers. The well-established acts that did develop ...

Debbie Gibson, seemed to portend a never-ending parade of chart-topping teenage females, both Tif- fany and Gibson were long for ...

During the 1980’s, pornography came in a variety of forms such as movies, videos, books, magazines, paintings, audio recordings, ...

that pornography was a form of free speech and should be protected under the First Amendment. Throughout the 1980’s, the Supreme ...

threats. There were similar occurrences in Okla- homa and Arkansas. In May, 1987, an Oklahoma City mail carrier threatened sever ...