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...political-action committee, Democrats for the '80s, was at first derisively called PamPAC, but Harriman persevered. She was host of a series of "issues evenings," at which policy analysts and Senate candidates shared ideas and presidential hopefuls were featured as speakers. Among her favorites were Al Gore, Jay Rockefeller and Bill Clinton. Democratic donors ponied up $1,000 a place for the privilege of being part of the party. In the process, she raised close to $12 million and won the right to be taken seriously. Diane Sawyer recalls that as late stayers gossiped in corners, Pamela would still...
...geneticist at the University of California in San Francisco and a computer scientist at Yale were critically injured by mail bombs. Federal officials suspect a shadowy person or group, sometimes known as FC, which mailed explosive devices to campuses, airlines and high-tech companies in the late 1970s and '80s, killing one person and injuring...
...near the beginning of the movie. Beale is widely known as the "birthplace of the blues;" in the era before integration, it was the place where Black musicians went to play incredible music in smoky dives. After falling into disrepair, it was refurbished by the city in the early '80s, and after a slow start, managed to catch on. Today it's filled with funky restaurants, offbeat stores and music joints (such as B.B. King's). On spring and summer nights, Beale becomes packed with people of all types strolling around. It's one of the few places in Memphis...
...Every two years a commissioner is appointed to oversee its structure and content. This year the task fell to a Neapolitan art critic named Achille Bonito Oliva. Bonito Oliva is a mini-celebrity in Italy, an imbonitore, or bustling promoter, of groups and movements, who gave the '80s its silliest piece of art jargon, "la transavanguardia," the "trans-avant-garde." He wanted to create a Biennale that would transcend national differences and illustrate "cultural nomadism." To put it charitably, his talents are not up to the task...
...National Weather Service expects highs in the 80s for tomorrow's opening day, although thunder-storms will threaten in the afternoon. Forecasts, predictably, call for dry skies inside Memorial Hall, where registration will be held...