Dallas Millions of viewers tune into the U. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J. Magnum, P. Thundarr the Barbarian [cartoon] In the year , a comet hurtles between Earth and the moon.
The moon is destroyed, and the Earth loses its ozone layer—causing the entire planet to be laid waste. Their parents, Henry and Muriel, live in the other half.
Segments ranged from the uplifting young people overcoming severe handicaps to lead normal lives to the unexplainable a park ranger who had been hit by lightning over 7 times to the simply stupid a stuntman jumping a motorcycle over the spinning rotors of 3 helicopters. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Any Which Way You Can Starring: Clint Eastwood Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business.
He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. Private Benjamin Starring: Goldie Hawn A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected. By the time they are rescued, they have learned a great deal about life and are raising a child of their own. Urban Cowboy Starring: John Travolta Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
The Shining Starring: Jack Nicholson A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Lennon, beloved by many around the world for his talent as an artist and outspoken nature as a public figure, had given an autograph to Chapman earlier in the day and was returning home from a recording studio with his wife Yoko Ono at the time of the attack.
In the days following his death hundreds of fans gathered outside of his apartment in mourning. Rioting Liberty City, Miami on on May 17 leaves 18 dead. A severe and destructive thunderstorm strikes four counties in western Wisconsin. Millions of viewers tune into the TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.
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Helens Eruption on May 18th in Washington killing Volcanic activity began again in May. A total of 57 people were killed as a result of the volcanic blast. Start of Iran -- Iraq War. They did so because they had grown tired of the seemingly insurmountable problems facing aging cities, such as overcrowding, pollution and crime. Perhaps most of all, they were tired of paying high taxes for social programs they did not consider effective and were worried about the stagnating economy.
The movement resonated with many citizens who had once supported more liberal policies but who no longer believed the Democratic Party represented their interests. Reagan won 51 percent of the vote and carried all but five states and the District of Columbia.
Once a Hollywood actor, his outwardly reassuring disposition and optimistic style appealed to many Americans. Like many other American leaders during the Cold War, President Reagan believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened freedom everywhere.
As a result, his administration was eager to provide financial and military aid to anticommunist governments and insurgencies around the world. In November , it emerged that the White House had secretly sold arms to Iran in an effort to win the freedom of U.
Oliver North , a member of the National Security Council. By early , the United States was experiencing its worst recession since the Great Depression. Nine million people were unemployed in November of that year. Businesses closed, families lost their homes and farmers lost their land. Despite its mixed track record, a majority of Americans still believed in the conservative agenda by the late s.
When Ronald Reagan left office in , he had the highest approval rating of any president since Franklin Roosevelt. Bush, soundly defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the presidential election. In some respects, the popular culture of the s reflected the era's political conservatism. For many people, the symbol of the decade was the "yuppie": a baby boomer with a college education, a well-paying job and expensive taste.
Many people derided yuppies for being self-centered and materialistic, and surveys of young urban professionals across the country showed that they were, indeed, more concerned with making money and buying consumer goods than their parents and grandparents had been. However, in some ways yuppiedom was less shallow and superficial than it appeared. They were successful, but they weren't sure they were happy. At the movie theater, the s was the age of the blockbuster. The s was also the heyday of the teen movie.
By the end of the s, 60 percent of American television owners got cable service—and the most revolutionary cable network of all was MTV, which made its debut on August 1,
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