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...arrive in the Port of Miami this week to begin service for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, is a glittering symbol of a new Golden Age for passenger ships. In the 1950s the onset of jet travel left the * cruise industry dead in the water. But through the '80s the business has been growing at flank speed. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled...
Perhaps it is an immature impulse to wish for heroes. In the early '80s many of the young adopted the oldest American President, Ronald Reagan, as a kind of hero -- not a moral or political hero exactly, but rather a sort of hero of attitude, not a leader so much as a prince of nonchalance. That sort of hero does not nourish much, or perform the hero's function of inspiring people to be better, to do better...
...shuffle as well. The San Francisco Opera, one of the nation's largest companies, canceled its summer season because of a $2 million deficit. Says Tully Friedman, president of the company's board: "We're going to have to retool the way we do business to survive in the '80s and beyond...
THIRTYSOMETHING (ABC). This yuppie drama may get a bit whiny and self- indulgent at times, but it captures the way '80s people talk as no other show has. Moreover, Hope and Michael (Mel Harris and Ken Olin) are the only couple on TV who convince us they are really, truly in love...
...Brooks' beguilingly skeptical romance, Jane is the Lois Lane of the '80s, a newswoman whose affections are torn between a Clark Kent reporter (Albert Brooks) and a flawed Superman-anchorman (William Hurt). The male leads had long been cast, but until just before rehearsals, Jim Brooks was still looking for his "little steamroller." Debra Winger, who had shone in his Terms of Endearment, was pregnant and unavailable. Sigourney Weaver, Mary Beth Hurt, Christine Lahti, Judy Davis -- all were fine, but nobody was right...