The 80s

The Last Dance: Donna Summer (1948-2012)

Howard Barbanel | Posted 05.17.2012

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Howard Barbanel

All she asked "is that you dance with me," and dance we did. Donna Summer, the voice of an era, gone at 63.

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WATCH: Top Nostalgic '80s Songs

Posted 10.09.2011

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Songs running the gamut from Madonna's pop anthems to Public Enemy's political rhymes make the 1980s an undeniably great decade for music. Here at Huf...

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WATCH: 'The Office' As An 80s Sitcom

Posted 08.14.2011

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If there's one thing people love more than NBC's comedy lineup, it's 80's nostalgia. YouTuber benny2700 has found the perfect way to combine them both...

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Happy to Be "Irrelevant"

Stephanie Dolgoff | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stephanie Dolgoff

The '80s were when I was in high school and college, when, like every raw and angsty adolescent, I felt on some level that Simon LeBon and Natalie Merchant and even Ozzy Osbourne were living inside my head.

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When The Closet Isn't a Closet: A Periodic History Of Personal Discretion

Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The 80s, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Rights, Wall Street, Prison, In the Closet, Gay Marriage, Healthy Living News
Mark Olmsted

I went to school in the 70s, worked on Wall Street in the 80s, and went to prison in 2004. These experiences constitute six of the last 32 years. For 20 percent of my life as a gay man, I hid my sexuality.

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Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

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My Friend Ian Browde's Right Brain Reflections

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne R. Davis

With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.

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