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...misinformation to my trusting comrades, who in turn transmitted it to their comrades. In short, I am responsible for an entire community of people who are convinced that Alec Guinness, who is presently alive and well and living in a London suburb, actually bit it back in the late '80s. Obi-Wan Kenobi's dialogue with Luke in that memorable scene from Star Wars, as a result, had its unlikely effect on me: "Oh, he's not dead; not yet." Well, apparently...
...making much sense of ADD either. Shortly after the disorder was first identified, a spin-off, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, or ADHD, was born. As an elementary school student in the mid-'80s, you may have encountered one or two children who had to take regular medication for hyperactivity. They were most likely taking Ritalin, the ADD and ADHD treatment of choice since the early days of the disorders...
...Early '80s rap group Run DMC heads the list of possible acts, joined by the Cowboy Junkies, Luscious Jackson, Redman, Doug E. Fresh, the Samples, God Street Wine, 1995 Springfest headliners G-Love and Special Sauce, as well as two more costly acts, the Wallflowers and They Might Be Giants...
Beside showing disrespect for voting majorities in two states, McCaffrey's take-prisoners approach to the marijuana initiatives--which he called a "tremendous tragedy" in Rolling Stone--reflects a hypocritical moralism of Reaganesque proportions. Similar to the First Lady of the '80s, who repeated her "Just Say No" mantra like a mentally disturbed parrot, McCaffrey has been pushing no-tolerance policy on drug use. The legitimation? As McCaffrey made clear in his speech, it is the "protection" of our nation's youth which underlies national drug policy, not any political weakness of our pot-smoking (but non-inhaling) President. McCaffrey...
...years, nibbled at by a horde of competing news sources on cable, local TV and elsewhere. Older viewers who do tune in to network news, moreover, are notoriously slow to change their habits. The CBS Evening News was No. 1 for all of the 1970s and most of the '80s. In 1989 ABC's World News Tonight took over the top spot and held on to it for years. The broadcasts have been anchored by the same three middle-aged white males for more than a decade...