The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

sport. Amateur and professional tennis players trained according to these research concepts to maxi- mize their performance. One ...

Further Reading Collins, Bud.Total Tennis, Revised: The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia. Toronto: Sport Classic Books, 2003. Provid ...

States;RoboCop; Robots; Schwarzenegger, Arnold; Science-fiction films;Star Trek: The Next Generation; Strategic Defense Initiati ...

did so well at the Academy Awards.Terms of Endear- mentwas something of a surprise hit in 1983 when it won a significant number ...

of Puerto Rico from the United States. The best known of these groups were the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), th ...

two groups included the August 27, 1982, assassina- tion of the Turkish military attaché to Canada in Ot- tawa. This murder was ...

dents overseas (in particular the October 23 bomb- ing of Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 American servicemen), especi ...

Atlanta, Georgia: the Alliance Theatre and Theatre in the Square. At the end of the decade, more than two hundred such theaters ...

by the famous Bob Fosse, creator ofChicago(pr. 1975), whose concept musicalBig Dealopened in 1986. Another such artist was Tommy ...

as scientists’ diaries, with government films and ex- cerpts from opera and night club acts to present a surrealistic image of a ...

than observing, though he does extrapolate from his knowledge of contemporary cultures at the dawn of the 1980’s. What will the ...

Creators Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz peopled their fictional Philadelphia with seven main characters: Michael Steadman ...

the small-minded and self-important record industry people. Though the second half of the film recounts the tour’s crash and the ...

corded a .452 field goal percentage, a .759 free throw percentage, 9,061 assists, and 1,861 steals; and shot .290 from beyond th ...

murderer could potentially negate the prosecution’s attempt to seek death on behalf of the state. For in- stance, the 2002Atkins ...

Further Reading Johansen, Bruce E.The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth’s Future. Greenwood, Conn.: Prae- ger, 2003. Ma ...

ments inhospitable to humans. In the summer of 1985, Woods Hole and the French National Insti- tute of Oceanography (IFREMER) la ...

Torch Song Trilogy Identification Play and film Author Harvey Fierstein (1954- ) Date Play opened June 10, 1982; film released ...

See also ACT UP; AIDS epidemic; Broderick, Mat- thew; Film in the United States; Homosexuality and gay rights;Kiss of the Spider ...

to raise premiums to cover increased awards. The so- called insurance cycle began at the end of the 1960’s, when the insurance i ...