Fashion: Coordinated ribbon belts, ribbon watchbands, ribbon hairbands. Shell-shaped gold belt buckles that coordinated with the gold shell earrings. De rigeur strand of pearls. Izod Lacoste polos and cardigans, FairIsle yoked sweaters. Bermuda bags with multiple covers. Sperrys.
Entertainment: J Geils, Billy Joel, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. The advent of the Sony Walkman. Towards the end of college, music CDs.
Politics: Reagan!
My parents' US Rep who happened to be a priest was not allowed to run for re-election due to the Vatican edict. Much to my extended family's dismay, the seat was filled by Barney Frank who unfortunately is still in office.
Anti-nuclear clubs in hs led by the girl whose pediatrician mother had become a national figure in this movement.
South Africa divestment-Even my apathetic, apolitical school had one of those apartheid shanties on the Cut.
Science: Challenger Explosion. One of the astronauts was a CMU graduate so the whole campus was in mourning.
The day a fellow hs student's father was announced as a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids in college
and the retirement of the skinny ie chokable Fisher-Price people when I was a new mother
Fad: Rubik's Cube, CPK, gourmet jelly beans
Sports: Celtics championships
School: Intense pressure cooker both in hs and in college.
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Who remembers People Express Airlines? This was a great carrier for students!
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