People Celebrate the 80S

It Was 'Morning in America,' Declared an Incoming Ronald Reagan. Everything Promised to Be Better Than Ever, Including a Renovated Statue of Liberty. While Wolfgang Puck Served Nouvelle Cuisine, Blondie Played New Wave Rock and Keith Haring Introduced the Art of the Neo-Doodle. yet the Newness Had a Frightening Flip Side. We Lost the Challenger and Out First Teacher-Astronaut, Christa Mcauliffe; and People Began Dying in Terrifying Numbers of an Incurable New Disease Called Aids. No Wonder E.T Wanted to Phone Home.As Michael Jackson Moonwalked and Madonna Championed the Material Girl, We Yearned for Old-Fashioned, Father Knows-Best Reassurance-And-Got It, in Fresh, Humorous Form, From Bill Cosby. of Course, We Will Believe in Fairy Tales. How Else to Explain Millions of Otherwise Sensible Americans Getting Up Before Dawn to Watch Lady Diana Wed Prince Charles? We All Hoped That Where There Was a Wills, There Was a Way That Might Live Happily Ever After, or so We Hoped. Ah, Well. If The