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Remembering the 1980s The Celtics against the Lakers
2008-06-10 00:02:00 Listening to the radio yesterday I learned with interest that the Celtics and the Lakers were contesting another NBA Championship series. When I moved to America in the mid 1980s I had never heard of Larry Bird or Magic Johnston and I doubt that I had ever watched a game of basketball. I had also never heard off or listened to the voice of the NBA, Brent Musburger, whose voice I would get to know well in the first few years of living there.We played it at high school for gym for about six weeks a year. I hated it with the heavy ball and the impossible hoop. This story is how I came to love the game for a short period of time.We stayed for a while in Vermont where all the finals games were on television on CBS. My future father in law was born and bred in Boston and he filled me in on some of the important details. The names from that era are very clear in my mind. I can remember many late nights gripped by the intense theatre from the dusty old Boston Garden and the razzmatazz of Lo...
Message To Steve: Apple Is Stuck in the 1980s
2008-06-01 16:23:00 I would love to own an Apple Mac. The operating system is amazing and I’m tremendously fond of Apple design. However, the company only sells a single machine — the diminutive Mac Mini — for under $1000. Sadly, it’s woefully underpowered and insanely overpriced. Those with long memories will tell you that Apple Macintosh computers have always been pricey. The original Mac — equipped with a monochrome display and 128K memory — debuted in 1984 at a price of $2495. Its advanced technical design, playful operating system and radically different shape allowed Apple to market it at a premium against a flood of boring beige PC clones. Fast-forward almost a quarter century and Apple is still playing the same game. The trouble is that their machines are now based on the same commodity hardware as a standard PC, yet the company keeps prices sky high on the basis of good looks and an excellent operating system. However, as component prices drop and performanc...
By: Attuworld
Someone Wake Me When The 1980s End Again
2008-05-29 08:41:00 Apparently the studios in Hollywood have suddenly realized the 1980’s were twenty years ago, and it’s time to remake every movie under the sun. The latest reports I’m hearing have us seeing remakes of the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, 1984 invasion thriller Red Dawn and the original Highlander movie from 1986. Why? None of these ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Someone Wake Me When The 1980s End Again", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/-05/29/someone-wake-me-when-the--1980s-end-again/" });
By: SeanPAune.com
Ungaro Diva and Paloma Picasso Mon Parfum ~ two 1980s rose chypres
2008-04-10 19:39:00 On weekends I work at a vintage clothing shop. I love the Jean Harlow dressing gowns and Grace Kelly day dresses we stock, but I've noticed a steadily growing clientele for Pat Benatar blazers and even Debby Boone gauchos. Yes, for some of us the '80s are back. You wouldn't catch me dead in an ultrasuede shirt or leggings, but I have to admit that I adore a whopping 1980s rose chypre. At the top of my list are Ungaro Diva and Paloma Picasso Mon Parfum. Jacques Polge, the current house nose for Chanel, created Diva in 1982. The notes include mandarin, aldehydes, coriander, rosewood, tuberose, cardamom, rose, jasmine, narcissus, carnation, ylang ylang, patchouli, sandalwood, oakmoss, honey, vetiver, civet, musk and labdanum. Diva is beautifully blended, silky, womanly, and supremely French. If Diva were a real-life diva, I'd peg her as Renee Fleming, wending her voice seamlessly through Schubert lieder. Two years later, Paloma Mon Parfum, created by Francis Bocris, hit the market....
By: Fashion Newsweek
World foodgrain stocks down to the lowest since 1980s - Economic Times
2008-04-09 23:40:00 World foodgrain stocks down to the lowest since 1980sEconomic Times, India - 9 minutes agoNEW DELHI: Welcome to the New World defined by food demands. In just a few years from now, your roti-chawal could be sourced in a sustained manner from the ...
OiL FUTURES: The Crude Prices `Not Extreme' Compared to 1980s, Deutsche Ban
2008-03-14 17:54:00 Crude oil prices aren't yet as ``extreme'' as they were in the 1980s when adjusted for the purchasing power of U.S. consumers, Deutsche Bank AG said. ``Oil prices would need to reach $145 a barrel for it to raise energy expenditures as a percent of U.S. disposable income to the levels that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
The Monitor, Circa The Mid-1980s
2008-02-25 06:25:00 When I was fifteen, I babysat a lot, and one of the places at which I spent quite a few evenings was an apartment high up across town. The little girl went to bed early and the parents stayed out late, so I had hours to do with as I pleased.The apartment was rather small, but it had large windows, so I would pull aside all the venetian blinds, turn off the room lights, and let the apartment be taken over by weak ambient light from the city below. I was from the low, flat suburbs, and the height fascinated me. The light was a hollow grey, if there can be a colour that is hollow, or rather it was a wan shade of grey that hollowed out all forms that dipped away from it. My eyes were sunken in the window's reflection, the sofa grew a depth of contours not before visible, and the little girl's toys became angular and hard.The building was outfitted with a video and audio monitor at the front entry, and near the front door of each apartment was a small, black-and-white video screen....
GENERO CALAYETA - REAL SOCIEDAD MOURNS 1980s "DREAM TEAM" MEMBER.
2008-02-09 19:13:00 The Real Sociedad Football Club & the Spanish Football community is mourning the death of 53 year old ex- Sociedad player GENERO CELAYETA after a long battle with disease. Genero started with the... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports
Christina Aguilera 1980s Style
2008-01-28 19:44:00 Christina Aguilera as a dull 1980s girl. How, uh, boring.
By: Ordinary Stars
Garden Variety: Greatest Songs of the 1980s (50-35)
2008-01-25 06:32:00 (Just looking at this picture makes me feel glad all-over.)I'm not sure what complex algorythm that VH1 employedto calculate the following "Greatest Songs of the 1980's"way back in 2006 but I think that it's gorgeous thatTwisted Sister can sit comfortably wedged between theBruce Springstein (did you catch that?) and the The Police, and Motley Crue between The B52s and The Clash. It somehow describes the '80s for me.As William Gibson, author of the popular 1980'scyberpunk classic Neuromancer, once said,"The future is already here, it's just notevenly distributed." I'm not sure what he meantbut it sounds clever and odds are he was watchingMtv when he thought that one up.I wouldn't want to opine about this or thattime period being more or less diverse or betteror any of that nonsense, and certainly don't knowabout Mtv being a good index for much of anythingsubstantial, now or then, and even though I didn'tlisten to any of the music contained herein in anyway but peripherally,...
By: dalliance
1980s charm necklace plastic
2007-12-23 03:12:00 … 1980s cartoon in 1980s cartoon japanese 1980s cartoon life thats 1980s cartoon morning saturday 1980s cartoon movies 1980s cartoon quiz 1980s cartoon raccoon 1980s cartoon series 1980s cartoon show 1980s cartoon shows 1980s cartoon… ……
By: Fine Art Prints
The 8-Bit Tie: Time For 1980s Graphics?
2007-12-20 04:59:00 This one really cracked me up, and I almost bought it for the two Holiday parties I attended this year (along with the SnowBot), but $50 for Mac software won out (that deal expires like tonight, 12-19-07!). ThinkGeek does it again with the 8-Bit tie, bringing everyone back to video games from the 1980s, if not the 1970s!It comes in both blue and red, and though we can't all be slick emo-punk rockers like the model they hired, at least we can all be geeks, right? Right?? Anyway, find it at ThinkGeek.com for $19.99.
By: Blog Zone
The Top 50 Commercials From The 1980s.
2007-12-08 17:19:00 The Top 50 Commercials From The 1980s.Now that we have a link to the 50 Greatest Commercials of the '80s & all are videos, which means there's absolutely no hope of being productive today. Watch the "The Top 50 Commercials From The 1980s" Video on YoutubeOther Posts:Aquarium Art.Interesting Door Mats.Artistic Water Tanks II.Changing Trends In Job Market.With A Soda Can, Boost Your Wifi.
By: Crooked Brains
Grain stocks down at early-1980s levels, analyst says
2007-12-05 10:11:00 Agriculture Online (December 4, 2007) - The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of grain comes under more pressure than at any time in 50 years, Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute, warned in an interview with The ...
By: Commodity Wealth
Fashion In 1980s And Late Twentieth Century
2007-11-11 22:40:00 During the late twentieth century, fashions began to criss-cross international boundaries with rapidity. Popular Western styles were adopted all over the world, and many designers from outside of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: CLOTHES FASHION
Oil Closing in on 1980s Records
2007-11-05 17:04:00 Oil prices hit a new trading high above $93 a barrel Monday before falling back. Analysts note the price of oil is closing in on the inflation-adjusted highs hit in early 1980. Depending on the how the adjustment is calculated, $38 a barrel then would be worth $96 to $101 or more today. The news that Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, was to stop as much as 600,000 barrels of daily crude production came amid political tensions in the Mideast, a weak U.S. dollar and a tight supply outlook that had already pushed crude oil to record prices. Oi
#828: The Early 1980s, Waskesiu Style
2007-10-17 20:56:00 Every year for one or two weeks, my family would head up to Waskesiu Lake in northern Saskatchewan and stay at these rented shacks, which were generously called cabins. They were decidedly rustic, but not without their charm if you are like me and think that cheap prints in white plastic frames from the 1950s are charming.The cabins were set up to resemble a small community along narrow streets beneath a canopy of old pine trees. There was a laundry at one end tucked behind a general store that sold over-priced groceries, beachwear, cheap sweatshop toys, and twenty flavours of ice cream. The bathrooms were shared, as only a handful of the cabins had private ones, and shoes were mandatory if you didn't want the grit of old concrete between your toes. All the buildings - the cabins, laundry, and general store - had the same whitewashed wooden siding, maroon trim, and shingled roofs covered in green moss.Even as a child, I was amazed at the interiors of the cabins. Every last thi...
Soviet Union witnessed invasion of US-made UFOs in 1980s
2007-09-30 00:47:00 The first ?flying saucers? could not cover long distances, and Americans had to use submarines to deliver those saucers to the Soviet shores. The Pentagon was testing the third generation of flying saucers when the Soviet Union just started development of similar mechanisms. A correspondent of PRAVDA.Ru is going to break the secrecy requirement and publish a story told by a former engineer of an enterprise where UFO components were manufactured.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the USSR witnessed an invasion of unidentified flying objects. Some of the ?visits? were particularly curious. In December 1989, policemen in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk came to a scene of actio and witnessed ?some dark apparatuses with colored lights? were experimenting on a power line going to a local aluminum plant. Other acquaintances of the man who told the story witnessed objects flying over the Yenisei River and the city of Krasnoyarsk. The man himself saw an UFO earlier, April 26, 1989 in the Ur...
Updating Conforming Loan Limit Formulas Set In 1980s Could Alleviate Housin
2007-09-06 19:57:00 A Practical Solution to the Mortgage Credit Crunch Updating conforming loan limit formulas set in the 1980s could alleviate housing crisis for thousands of homeowners Homeowners in high priced states who are facing liquidity crises could find a much-needed solution in programs currently available only to homebuyers in Alaska and Hawaii. (...)
WallyPower Yacht Is From The Future Of The 1980s
2007-09-05 17:06:00 From SCI FI Tech: If you've got a gigantic pile of money sitting around and nothing constructive to do with it and also happen t...
Woz In 1980s Datsun 280-Z Commercial
2007-08-20 22:36:00 Feast your eyes, folks. Who likes the Z-Car? Woz likes the Z-car! Because it’s AWESOME! Via Epicenter
“Mime is a lot of fun” or 1980s breakdance facial expressions [
2007-08-05 16:09:00 Now I remember why breakdancing got on my nerves in the 1980s: (Via Attuworld.) Thus endeth the silliness for this rainy Sunday. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/140-961458/mime_is_a_lot_of_fun_or_-1980s_breakdance.php
SA wildfires worst since 1980s
2007-08-02 09:10:00 The wildfires that have been raging across South Africa have been described as the worst the country has experienced since the 1980s.
Cocaine Cowboys - The Rise of Miami in the 1970s and 1980s
2007-07-17 05:02:00 I finally got a chance to watch the movie “Cocaine Cowboys” last night. I’ve been trying to rent it at Blockbuster for months but it was always checked out. I stumbled upon it on the Internet last night and watched every minute of it. For those of you unfamiliar with the movie, ...
Vintage Cars in the 1980s
2007-05-29 02:00:00 In the 1980s, sports cars weren?t the only one of automotive breeds that surged into the limelight?gaining, as they emerged, vast attention from the public. Even vintage car racing benefited from the woes and troubles of the times. A great number of owners were understandably reluctant to drive a machine to a race track, particularly if ...
Do you remember the 1980s? This should jog your memory
2007-05-28 19:24:00 It’s still a holiday weekend in the U.S. (Ha Ha Canadians) so that means another lite post. Believe it or not, this is an e-mail forward that I received in 1999 and has remained in a folder at my hotmail account all of this time (talk about a relic of the past). I was pretty ...
BBC uncovers worrying details of 1980s haemophilia HIV scandal
2007-05-03 01:40:00 The British Broadcasting Corporation?s Newsnight programme has uncovered worrying details about the way that haemophiliacs were treated for their condition in the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the UK. The programme was broadcast last night on BBC 2 to coincide with World Haemophilia Day and the launch of an independent public inquiry into the ...
Aerosmith & The 1980s
2007-03-10 09:39:00 Aerosmith released its mammoth-selling Greatest Hits album in 1980 and in 1981 the band suffered another loss with the departure of Brad Whitford. After recording guitar parts for the song "Lightning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
1980s
2007-03-05 13:04:03 Atlantic and Mercury came calling. Once Bon Jovi had put together his band and began playing showcases and opening for local talent, they caught the attention of record executive Derek Shulman, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
tribute 1950s to 1980s
2007-01-22 09:52:02 funny+ colorful+ trapeze + floral appliqués + Cindy Lauper + mod minis + pop-art print + Warhol + hippie + baby doll dress + sexy pirate looks + Beatles? ?Sgt. Pepper? + Johnny Depp in ?Pirates of the Caribbean? + leather bustier and corset dresses (perfect for Madonna in her ?Like a Virgin? phase.) = MISS SIXTY Jeans summer collection 2007Engraçado + colorido + trapézio + apliques florais + Cindy Lauper + minis + estampas pop-art + Warhol + hippie + vestido baby doll + pirata sexy + Beatles - ?Sgt. Pepper? + Johnny Depp em ?Pirates of the Caribbean?" + bustier de couro e espartilho (perfeito para Madonna fase ?Like a Virgin?) = MISS SIXTY coleção Jeans verão 2007
By: santa mistura
One-Hit Wonder Baby Names from the 1980s
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I've saved the best for last! Here are the one-hit wonder baby names from my favorite decade -- the 1980s: Girls Audriana ranked 864th in 1989 Audrianna ranked 760th in 1989 Britta ranked 861st in 1986 Brittnay ranked 935th in 1989 Cherrelle ranked 879th in 1986 Cristen ranked 970th in 1982 Diandra ranked 904th in 1988 Dwan ranked 877th ... |
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