Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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's t he W e - Hello 80's it h I 5 Ji Q cf-TQ? 477 of X . l l H .f 1 X, 1 'X gf. bf'92c1Nmu Peanuts from The President With the election of Jimmy Carter as President in 1976, United States foreign policy changed significantly. The strong United States of the Korean and Viet Nam War eras had clearly relinquished its supreme military power to the communist Soviet Union. But as a final flare to end the decade, the Iranian and Afganistan crises reversed Carter's stand, and 1980 brought a policy geared toward growing military strength and a possible retum of draft registration. 48 Student Life Silverscreem With little else interesting to do on a weekend that was legal, students often tumed to an old standby, movies, for entertainment. Whether they attended with a date or just a friend, devoted fans flocked to the theater throughout the '70's. Just when we thought old war movies were gone to stay, a rash of Oscar winners kept theaters sold out for weeks. Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter and 1941 all dealt with war, the latter taking a comical view. For those who wanted to step into a totally different world, Rocky Horror Picture Show allowed the audiences almost as many lines as the actors. Costumes, toilet paper, rice and Time Warp contests THE let audiences participate in the movie rather than just viewing it. Some movies even started fads. Saturday Night Fever, a box office smash, not only provided John Travolta with fame and certainly fortune, but it started what was to become disco, a fad which didn't begin to fade until well into 1980. Movie-goers also looked heavenward for entertainment, flocking to space epics such as Star Trek, Star Wars and Allen. Star Wars turned out to be the top money-maker in history. Long lines and high prices didn't turn students away from what seemed to be one of the most common forms of weekend entertainment.

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:gf , , . f. 2 s 1 f 'I tr 5 ., 18 IN Baby face. Governor Bill Clinton speaks at the rally on the State Capitol grounds which honored the late Martin Luther King on his birthday. Tree trlmmlng. The annual Student Council Christmas tree, which decorated the hallway in front of the library, gets an omamental touch from Christy Harrell, SC member. Holidays-47

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Ame! time beet Qees em At the beginning of the decade, most of us were just getting used to school. We were more interested in playing kickball at recess or picking the scabs off our scraped knees than paying attention to current music. Considering all the time that being a kid required, we really didn't take a lot of time out to listen to music or radio, although some of us probably absent-mindedly hummed the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood song. Slowly as we grew up, however, our musical tastes were molded by the popular music of the '70's. By the late '70's, most of us were pretty well set in the style of music we enjoyed. Some of us were entranced with the metallic sounds and hard, driving rhythms of rock and roll as we worshipped Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and the Rolling Stones. Others twanged and chewed to the steady strums of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kenny Rogers, as they sang of The Gambler and Leukenbach, Texas. A new sound of the '70's, which appealed to many of us, was heard in discotheques around the world and gave birth to disco. Disco's throbbing background beats prompted new dances, from the early Hustle to the Freak. Improvisation was a key word in disco, and creativity in body movements brought hundreds of variations to the same basic dances. Some of us who liked soft rock mellowed out to the lyrical sounds of Barry Manilow or Barbra Streisand and listened to the top 40 singles, while others delighted in the timeless sounds of jazz and classical music. Some, who had no preference, hung in limbo and enjoyed a smorgasboard. One fad unique to the '70's was Punk Rock or New Wave, which featured, among others, Blondie or Elvis Costello, who seemingly stepped out of a flashback to the '5O's. Punk Rock fans sported acid glasses and irridescent hair. What would the '80's hold in store for music lovers? Perhaps music, like history, would repeat itself. ,Af Going dewm Little Rock lost two landmarks in February as the Grady Manning and Marion Hotels fell at the hands of a demolition crew to make room for a new convention center. While old timers lamented the fall of the hotels and others worried about possible damage to the Old State House, less than a block from the Marion, hundreds gathered across the river to watch the implosion. Others glued their eyes to television sets to await the 8:30 a.m. blast. Then came a delay, while the demolition crew rewired some corrections, and spectators were forced to wait in the cold and wind for another two hours. Finally the blast came, and in less than a minute the Little Rock skyline changed as the two structures crumbled in a cloud of dust. By the turn of the decade into the '70's, women's skirts had climbed to an all-time high. Slowly, as the decade passed, skirt lengths began dropping, and by 1976 the style was set for the rest of the decade at knee length or longer. With the appearance of 1980, however, it appeared that history would repeat itself. Once again skirts began rising, and fashion conscious women Kand menj began wondering How high this t.....?,- ' The beitem lime End of a Decade-49