The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Flag burning; Homosexuality and gay rights;Hustler Magazine v. Falwell;Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson; O’Connor, Sandra Day; Por ...

raphy of an American Evangelist. New York: Contin- uum, 1999. Jennifer Heller See also Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye; Falwell, Jerr ...

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Tabloid television Definition Sensationalistic television newsmagazine programs modeled after print tabloids Meant to be the ...

cast or documentary but defied accepted journalis- tic standards. Examples of the format includedA Current Affair (also a FOX cr ...

sumers, and television producers had to adjust the face of talk shows and their personalities to attract and accommodate this gr ...

See also Cable television; Demographics of Can- ada; Demographics of the United States; FOX network; Journalism; Pauley, Jane; R ...

McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain, eds.Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral Histor y of Punk. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. Lacy ...

counter medicine was a reminder that there were people out there who could not be trusted—who, if given a chance, would be happy ...

Jackson (with 21 percent), and Michael Dukakis (with 19 percent). Impact Tanner ’88influenced the growth of the “mockumentary” s ...

tional Perspective. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005. Peters, B. Guy.The Politics of Taxation. Cambridge, England: ...

by the league after his second positive drug test. Many more problems off the field would dog him well into the 1990’s. Ironical ...

The Eighties in America Teen films
947 Selected 1980’s Teen Films Year Title Director Young Actors 1980 The Hollywood Knights ...

(1986) catapulted Demi Moore to stardom,Ferris Bueller’s Day Offcemented Matthew Broderick’s ca- reer, and former teen geek Anth ...

spent four years working with Deb- bie...togetdiscarded as a teen act.” Tiffany (full name Tiffany Renee Darwish) had been singi ...

Televangelism Definition The use of television as a medium to communicate Christianity Scandals caused the rapid downfall of s ...

Impact The rising stars of American televangelism during the late 1970’s and 1980’s helped lay the groundwork for the developmen ...

number of stations that could be owned by a single person. However, when President Ronald Reagan appointed Mark S. Fowler and De ...

der, She Wrotestarred Angela Lansbury as an amateur sleuth in a small New England town. Many programs featured movie stars from ...

ers watched television 10.6 hours daily while other groups watched an average of 7.3 hours per day.The Cosby Showwas the first s ...

ior during the Reagan administration. Lichter, S. Robert, Linda S. Lichter, and Stanley Rothman.Prime Time: How TV Portrays Amer ...