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Subway Vigilante.SeeGoetz,
Bernhard
Sununu, John H.......... 926
Superconductors......... 927
Superfund program....... 929
Supreme Court decisions.... 931
Swaggart, Jimmy......... 936
Synthesizers............ 937

Tabloid television........ 938
Talk shows............ 939
Talking Heads.......... 941
Tamper-proof packaging..... 942
Tanner ’88............. 943
Tax Reform Act of 1986..... 944
Taylor, Lawrence......... 945
Technology.SeeScience and
technology
Teen films............ 946
Teen singers........... 948
Televangelism.......... 950
Television............. 951
Tennis............... 955
Terminator, The.......... 957
Terms of Endearment........ 958
Terrorism............. 959
Theater.............. 962
Third Wave, The.......... 965
thirtysomething........... 966
This Is Spin ̈al Tap......... 967
Thomas, Isiah.......... 968
Thompson v. Oklahoma...... 969
Times Beach dioxin scare.... 970
Titanicwreck discovery..... 971
Tobacco.SeeSmoking and
tobacco
Torch Song Trilogy......... 973
Toronto bathhouse raids of
1981.............. 974
Tort reform movement..... 974
Tower Commission........ 976
Toys and games.......... 979
Transplantation......... 982
Trivial Pursuit.......... 983
Tron................ 985
Trudeau, Pierre......... 986
Turner, John........... 988
Turner, Kathleen......... 989
Turner, Ted............ 990
Turner, Tina........... 991
Twilight Zoneaccident...... 992
Tylenol murders......... 993
Tyler, Anne............ 994
Tyson, Mike............ 995

Ueberroth, Peter......... 997

Unemployment in Canada... 998

Unemployment in the

United States......... 999

Unions.............. 1001

United Nations......... 1005

US Festivals........... 1007

U.S. Senate bombing...... 1009

USA for Africa......... 1009

USA Today............ 1011

USSStarkincident....... 1011

USSVincennesincident..... 1013

U2................ 1014

Valenzuela, Fernando..... 1015

Valley girls............ 1016

Van Halen............ 1017

Vancouver Expo ’86...... 1018

Vangelis............. 1020

Video games and arcades.... 1020

Vietnam Veterans

Memorial.......... 1022

Vincennes, USS.SeeUSS

Vincennesincident

Virtual reality.......... 1025

Voicemail............ 1025

Voyagerglobal flight....... 1026

Wages.SeeIncome and wages in

Canada; Income and wages in

the United States

Wall Street............ 1029

Washington, Harold...... 1029

Water pollution......... 1030

Watson, Tom.......... 1032

Watt, James G........... 1033

Wave, the............ 1034

Weaver, Sigourney....... 1035

Webster v. Reproductive Health

Services............ 1036

Weinberger, Caspar....... 1037

Welfare............. 1038

West Berlin discotheque

bombing........... 1041

When Harry Met Sally.. ..... 1042

White, Ryan........... 1043

White Noise............ 1044

Who Framed Roger Rabbit..... 1045

Williams, Robin......... 1046

Williams, Vanessa........ 1047

Williams, Wayne Bertram.See

Atlanta child murders

Wilson, August......... 1048

Winfrey, Oprah......... 1049

Women in rock music..... 1050

Women in the workforce.... 1053

Women’s rights......... 1057

Wonder Years, The........ 1063

Workforce, women in the.See

Women in the workforce

World music........... 1064

World Wrestling

Federation.......... 1065

Wright, Jim........... 1067

WWF.SeeWorld Wrestling

Federation

Xanadu Houses......... 1069

Yankovic, Weird Al....... 1070

Yellowstone National Park

fires.............. 1071

Yuppies............. 1072

Entertainment: Major Films

of the 1980’s......... 1075

Entertainment: Academy

Awards............ 1083

Entertainment: Major

Broadway Plays and

Awards............ 1085

Entertainment: Most-Watched

U.S. Television Shows.... 1092

Entertainment: Emmy

Awards............ 1094

Legislation: Major U.S.

Legislation.......... 1098

Legislation: U.S. Supreme

Court Decisions....... 1105

Literature: Best-Selling U.S.

Books............. 1111

Literature: Major Literary

Awards............ 1115

Music: Popular Musicians... 1119

Music: Grammy Awards..... 1130

Sports: Winners of Major

Events............ 1137

Time Line............ 1144

Bibliography.......... 1156

Web Sites............ 1161

Glossary............. 1165

List of Entries by Category... 1169

Photo Index............ III

Personages Index......... IX

Subject Index.......... XIX

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