Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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People were wearing .ill kinds of embroidered livestock on their shirts while wrestling with Rub1k's Cubes. Video killed the radio star and Pac Man remained ev- eryone's hero. We said goodbye to Doonesbury ttemporarilyl. and en- tered Bloom County, while herpes, the love bug, rode again. People with all shapes and colors of hairdos spent hours and millions on Donkey Kong, Mis- sile Command and the like. While people wor- ried about video games stifling our minds, other games gave our minds the opportunity to ex- pand. Dungeons and Dragons became an ex- tremely popular fantasy game. While real men learned not to eat quiche, real women were provided with a Guide to Excrueiating- ly Correct Behavior. More serious reading took us down Lyndon Johnson 's Path to Pow- er and through Gaz-ky Park. While Jane Fonda told us how to keep in shape, Andy Rooney gave us a few more minutes. Some of our favorites were made into movies, too. John Irving's The World According to Gai-p, though not as good as the book, be- came a big box-office hit. The biggest hit. though, was a little ex- tra-terrestrial who phoned home and cap- tured our hearts and wallets. While Dustin Hoff- man tried to convince everyone he was a woman in Tootsie, Ju- lie Andrews went a step beyond and tried to make us believe she was a man impersonating a woman in her role in Viz-tor! Victoria. Sex was an important issue in the year's movies as Making Love showed l , , lus homosexuality is not Real Men Dop't Eat Quiehe Miuiclrliook All io.-iiiiii.n -4 Q' Islluly fswje, blnstiiliiie 'f , Bruce Feirstein .- llliisti'.itvcl byl.l't'Loriii11 - F 5 5 4 -. ... .4 nf .1 I-. l i- Kllhi C voixiixitsui DEAD: EYE Author Andy Rooney wrote: And More By Andy Rooney Rooney states. A Writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew, and he has been doing it for twenty years on television and print. a sickness. We feasted at the Diner, were trapped into Tron, floated On Golden Pond. Six Weeks wasn't long enough and Richard Gere became An Offi- cer and a Gentleman. Popular movies on public television during the year were War and Remembrance, Winds of War, Thursdny's Child and The E'xecutioner's Song. Our favorite weekly programs were o .E Z an as E o E I' DICK Bum REYNOLDS za ootot HAWN 1 4' L

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Il T Strange But True A 220-pound mother, accused of crushing her eight-year-old son to death by sitting on him, was charged with manslaughter. Donald Metcalf, 27, was fifteen minutes late, thus delaying his grandmoth- er's funeral and keeping the other mourners waiting. Near the end of the ceremony, the reverand said, Look around. None of us know who's going to be next. Instantly, a bolt of lightning flashed from the sunny sky, killing Metcalf. At age 104, America's oldest prison inmate joked, They gave me a life sentence and I'm taking them up on it. He was sentenced in 1922 for stealing S5 and a watch. A Florida babysitter was arrested after the fifth child she had babysat was found drowned. It's just a crazy coincidence, she said. A 30-year-old barmaid in England served lonely 67-year-old John Shaw his daily pitcher of beer for years. Upon Shaw's death, he left the barmaid a 360,000 tip and his house. Ramon Rodriguez was arrested in Jersey City for axing a 35,000 prize racehorse. Rodriguez said he attacked the horse because it reminded him of his wife. President Reagan's son was seen in a New York State unemployment line after he was laid off from the Joffrey Ballet Company. A 42-year-old man spent eight years hiding from police in a two-foot-deep hole under a floorboard of his house. When he was discovered, he weighed 98 pounds, his gray hair was two feet long, his teeth had fallen out and he couldn't walk. While the debate over handguns continued to rage in the United States, Japan was talking about banning another deadly weapon. In August, two businessmen were arguing over a parking place. They began dueling with their pointed umbrellas and one of the men was stabbed to death. The Selective System, in its effort to enforce draft registration, sent out over a million notification letters. A seven-year-old boy from Thousand Oaks, Calif., a three-year-old girl from Yorktown Heights, N.Y. and a ten- year-old beagle from Philadelphia were among the recipients. On the fifth anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, Memphis newspa- pers ran an ad offering Elvis' official autopsy table for sale. The faculty at Mark Twain Intermediate School in Virginia recommended that The Adentures of Huckleberry Finn be removed from the curricu- lum because it is racist trash. The following products were introduced on supermarket shelves: Donutz, a breakfast cereal that tastes like real powdered donuts! g Juices Treat, a beef-flavored soft drink for dogs: and Sun Light lemon-scented dishwashing liquid which many people mistook for lemon juice. Lottery officials in many states reported heavy betting on the numbers 1910 and 2880 - the lot numbers on the cyanide-tainted Tylenol bottles, Q' - Tony Lima Mennrbam Begin, leader of Israel, is seen here bearded while mourning the death of his wife. Prince Charles is seen here carrying son. Willinm. Chnrles is enjoying the ral: of n bnbysitter lbese dlys. International Events

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