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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