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The 70s

Social Media's Word Hijacking

Kel Kelly | Posted 01.09.2013 | Technology
Read More: Social Media, Social Media Words, Social Media Buzz Words, Tech Words, The 70s, Social Media Terms, Slang Words, Technology News
Kel Kelly

I grew up in the '70s. Things were so different back then. Bad hair wasn't a day, it was a way of life. Words were different back then too. Fortunately, social media has permanently hijacked some of those words and given them a completely different meaning.

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Parental Inspired Nostalgia

Andrew Cotto | Posted 12.17.2012 | Parents
Read More: The 70s, Children, Freedom, Parenting, Childhood, Nostalgia, Independence, Parents, Parents News
Andrew Cotto

I never forgot those days in my childhood, but I'd never truly missed them. Until now. I miss them now because my kids don't have the same freedom.

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The Last Dance: Donna Summer (1948-2012)

Howard Barbanel | Posted 07.17.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: The 80s, Dance Music, Pop Music, The 70s, Donna Summer Dead, Disco, Madonna, Donna Summer, Donna Summer Died, Donna Summer Death, Entertainment News
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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Saki Knafo

Return To Levittown

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.13.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Baby Boomers, Demonstrations, Levittown, The '70s, Anti-War Movement, Revolution, Berkeley, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Steve Bergsman, Vietnam, Summer of Love, The '60s, Fifty News

Last Wednesday, as thousands of protesters gathered in financial districts around the country shouting slogans like "Get money out of politics" and "T...

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Saki Knafo

Levittown: The Baby Boomer Story As Told By The Children Of America's First Suburb

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.02.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Suburbs, Long Island, Levittown History, Levittown, Baby Boomers, The 70s, Suburbia, The 60s, Suburb History, Vietnam War, Corrections, Steve Bergsman, Baby Boom Generation, Eddie Money, Vietnam, New York, Fifty News

In 1946, a developer named William Levitt began buying up land from potato farmers in the Long Island town of Hempstead, N.Y., and within a few years ...

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People Cheat Less Now Than They Did In 1975

Your Tango | Posted 11.15.2011 | Women
Read More: Infidelity, Current Society, The 70s, 1975, Cheating Partner, Cheating Spouse, Cheating, Marriage Problems, Relationship Problems, Marriages, Women News

The good news keeps rolling in for those concerned about infidelity. We recently reported that the rate of divorce due to cheating has decreased, whic...

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1970: The Year That Gave Us American Idol, Celebrity Rehab and the First School of Rock

David Browne | Posted 07.13.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Beatles, Seventies Culture, John Lennon the Beatles, Seventies Music, Classic Rock, The 70s, The Seventies, The '70s, Entertainment News
David Browne

Other than death and taxes, two things we can seemingly count on forever are albums of pre-rock standards and wobbly auditions on American Idol. For all that, we can thank Ringo Starr.

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

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Counterculture, Civil Rights Movement, The 70s, The 60s, Vietnam, The 80s, Mccarthyism, The 50s, Eisenhower Era, Entertainment News
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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'70s Echo In New "No Nukes" Campaign

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: The 70s, No Nukes Campaign, Politics News

In 1979, in the dark freeze of the cold war and six months after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., they pa...

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