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...hate Bon Jovi. Don’t get me wrong—I’m a fan of retro kitsch. I’ve been to the Leverett ’80s dance. Twice. I’ve had those brunch discussions about “Saved by the Bell” and “Small Wonder.” But his name alone is reason to despise him. Jon Bon Jovi, a man whose career highlights in recent years consist of performing “Living on a Prayer” in front of middle-aged tourists...
...fashion, they lose all sense of purpose: a glass-encased exhibit of S&M paraphernalia looks more like a human-rights group presentation of Syrian secret-police torture instruments from the '70s. The porn they do show--stag films from 1915 projected on a wall, videos of '70s and '80s porn stars--are recontextualized into some strange National Geographic special. Even the sober-looking museum guards aren't impressed. "It's calmer here," says Jasmine Pallet, 22, comparing MoSex with her previous workplace. "Yankee Stadium is wild...
...wasn't a rerun of that '80s show. but the TV scene forced Mike Taylor, the Republican candidate in the Montana Senate election, to pull out of the race last week. He claimed an ad sponsored by Democrats tarnished his reputation by suggesting he was gay. The ad shows an early-'80s Taylor, clad in a leisure suit that exposed his chest and gold chains, applying makeup to a Tom Selleck look-alike. Taylor ran a hair-care school for 10 years through 1988, and the clip is from Beauty Corner, a television show he hosted. Democrats said his weak...
...documentarians, Guggenheim took aim at social injustice with such works as The Johnstown Flood (1989) and Nine from Little Rock (1964) and saluted America in D-Day Remembered (1994) and Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968). He made his first campaign ads for Adlai Stevenson in 1956. But by the mid-'80s, he had quit political campaigning, saying it was "sick...
...time when worldwide music sales are suffering - they dropped 5% in 2001 - classical music is feeling the pinch. It now accounts for under 6% of the total audio market. But fans remember a golden age. From the 1960s through the '80s, the major labels regularly recorded the central repertoire with top conductors and orchestras. Vinyl and tapes wore out, so people bought new performances since at that time reissues were less common. When new recording techniques like digital came along, consumers acquired their favorite works with better sound quality. But the durability of CDs - and the emergence of top-selling...