The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

made it more visible, as the new television channel MTV provided an outlet for Culture Club’s distinctive music videos. During t ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a man forced to wear a full-body condom by his health-obsessed girl- friend. The collection also ...

(Ringwald), the juvenile delinquent (Nelson), the geek (Hall), and the weirdo (Sheedy). These por- trayals provided contemporary ...

John Hughes ensured the persistence of the teen comedy as a cinematic genre for decades afterward. Also, despite its flaws,St. E ...

films, as was Ellis’s notoriously violentAmerican Psy- cho(1990), which achieved a cult following. Janowitz Tama Janowitz was br ...

Her clothes were torn and burnt and her hair was cut short and matted. When her clothes were re- moved at the hospital, racial s ...

name was frequently evoked in similar high-profile cases to cast doubts upon a victim’s veracity. Brawley herself quickly disapp ...

machine. He encouraged young dancers to believe in themselves and to persevere in their endeavors. Following the push that Bamba ...

cials, movies, and other media. While it enjoyed this spotlight, break dancing influenced music composi- tion, music technology, ...

cause the film used costume so effectively to help differentiate the five types represented by its protago- nists, it became a u ...

player’s batting average would exceed .400. Despite intense media attention, which Brett compared to the scrutiny that Roger Mar ...

Impact Bridges’s work in the 1980’s continued to be both prolific and well-received, demonstrating his rare ability to excel in ...

cus on spectacle and lavish set and costume designs. FollowingMe and My Girl(pr. 1986), an exception to this formula, Broadway w ...

entitledNot Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musi- cal Flops(1991) commemorates the failure of this production. The final y ...

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Broderick, Matthew The Eighties in America James Broderick, was a popular New York stage actor and his mother, Patricia Bi ...

Brokaw, Tom Identification Television news anchor Born February 6, 1940; Webster, South Dakota In 1982, Brokaw became the youn ...

In 1984, Brokaw prepared a documentary to cor- respond with the fortieth anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, ...

States ambassador to the United Nations. During the Nixon and Ford administrations (1969-1977), Bush also served as a special en ...

Bush’s campaign for future pri- mary victories, allowing Bush to secure his party’s presidential nomination. Choosing Senator Da ...

he had not served as Reagan’s two-term vice presi- dent, it is unlikely that Bush would have been nomi- nated and elected presid ...