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...hirsute Texas trio, has always cut a jagged diagonal across the pop landscape. During the egocentric '80s, when Madonna, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson were using MTV to magnify their star appeal, ZZ Top put an ironic distance between itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van Winkle beards, trench coats and sunglasses. The group's slyly salacious videos about glossy cars and sassy girls were always delivered with a knowing wink. One clip ends with the band standing on the edge of a dusty desert, striking its trademark truckin' pose before fading like a mirage on an overheated highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Lone Rangers Ride Again | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

Wiley's and Strominger's teams began collaborating in the early '80s. In 1987, their combined efforts determined the structure of a similar protein-peptide complex...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Bio-Chem. Researchers Develop New Treatment | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

Leverett House pre-med advisor Rodney J. Taylorsays that the start of the boom in applicantscoincided with the financial instability of thelate '80s and the stock market crash in October...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: More Apply To Med Schools | 3/15/1994 | See Source »

...work junkie. Even if the dance doesn't turn out to be successful, I adore the process." The speaker is Mikhail Baryshnikov, the greatest dancer of his time, whose interpretations of the classical male roles set the standard for the 1970s and '80s, and probably for a long time to come. In those years the notion of this paradigm of nobility mixing it up with modern dance seemed absurd. But a closer look at the record reveals he was already seeking out alliances with modern choreographers. When Twyla Tharp created Push Comes to Shove for him in 1976, she revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...Londoner, has made a second career out of being a supporting player in these archaic rituals. For him it's like attending a rugby match without having to get muddy. Until, that is, he meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell), a pretty American. The movie being a nostalgia piece -- remember the '80s? -- the two have sex, then love, then a marriage. But not to each other. That's why this is a comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Four Weddings and a Funeral: Well Groomed | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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