Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Ijf itbtl,,s FASHION game 7 and was voted Most Valu- able Player of the Series. In gridiron action, the New York Gi- ants won their first Super Bowl since 1956, a 39-20 romp over the Denver Broncos. The game was dominated both offensively and defensively by the Giants. Quarterback Phil Simms completed a record 22 of 25 passes, while the defense, led by Lawrence Taylor, George Martin and Carl Banks, held the Broncs to just 14 first half rushing yards. Collegiately, Penn State, master- minded by 21 year head coach Joe Paterno, overcame underdog odds to claim the National Championship. The number two ranked Nittany Lions beat top ranked Miami in the Fiesta Bowl 14-10. Before 70 million viewers, Pen State intercepted Heis- man Trophy winner Vinny Testa- verde eight times to finish an unde- feated 12-0 season. New York Mets manager Davey Johnson ac- cepts the World Series trophy in the locker room after game seven. Guess: Coca-Cola: Pepsi: Espirit: Forenza: Levis. What do all these names have in common, you ask? They were all name-brand top sellers, ranging in popularity for teenie-bopping young- sters to mothers and fathers of all ages. Guess apparel spirited practically every butt and bosom in in the Quad Cities, offering the customer tee- shirts, jean jackets, jeans and a load of other Georges Marciano products. Buyers had a choice of stonewashed, button-fly, and, yes, manufacturally ripped jeans to choose from. Even though the high cost of these jeans (fifty to sixty dollars) did stop some people from buying, these 'Guess- less' customers did not lack in style. A variety of homemade bleached and torn jeans filtered in where 'Guess' was absent. Spiked hair, a thin tie, a white cot- ton sports jacket, tee-shirt, and bag- gy pants was the look for '87 males. This array of clothing was simply called the Miami Vice look, uniquely named after the TV show. Long, straight, and oversized styles demonstrated themselves over and over. A variety of coats, skirts, shirts, and sweatshirts hit the stores like hotcakes and disappeared as soon as they came. •On July 23rd Sarah Ferguson was brought into royalty after marrying Britain's Prince Andrew. •Already wed by civil ceremony, ac- tress Diana Ross decided to spend one million dollars to tie the knot ever closer in the church to zillionaire Arne Naess Jr. •Brat-pack star, Rob Lowe, and girl- friend, Melissa Gilbert, set their wed- ding date for September of 1987. Prince Andrew and bride Soroh Ferguson walk in royal wedded bliss •Tennis pro, John McEnroe, and Ta- tum O'Neil finally tied the knot 10 weeks after the birth of their son, Ke- vin Jack. •After only four months of dating, ac- tress Debra Winger and Timothy Hut- ton hitched themselves. •Zsa-Zsa Gabor added Prince Fre- drick von Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, to her list of husbands. •Motley Crue's Tommy Lee and Dyn- asty star, Heather Locklear, were the main attractions at their wedding. mim-mag

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vcith the the The music industry had always been an exciting one, and '86- '87 did not disappoint. Many changes took place: Madonna's hair got shorter, Duran Duran got back together and the only Jackson heard from was little sister Janet, but the real stories were in the old and the new. First the old. Comebacks were made every time you turned around, as careers repeated themselves all over. Perhaps the most surprising was The Monkees, who came back to life after MTV resurrected the old shows to a new audience. Boston picked up where they left off seven years ago when their Third Stage LP went to number one in the fall. The charts were filled with albums by artists two and three times the age of the teens who bought their music. Peter Gabriel and Steve Winwood scored the big- gest hits of their long careers with Literally lost in music, junior Monica Viren sorts through her records. ot£ So and Back in the High Life re- spectively, while immortals like Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Pete Townsend and Billy Joel continued their long-term success. While the past made itself the pre- sent, the future of music was well worth listening to. Ears opened to new acts such as Whitney Houston, who sold an incredible 7 million re- cords. Rap was introduced on a world level when Run DMC remade Walk This Way and received huge radio air play. Rap was then combined with raucious metal guitar in the party mu- sic of The Beastie Boys. The Wallets brought a new style of music when they injected accordion and saxo- phone into their danceable tunes. Many new English bands crossed over to the American market. Bob Geldof broke from his old band, Boomtown Rats, to hit with Deep in the Heart of Nowhere , while The Housemartins, Screaming Blue Mes- siahs and Big Audio Dynamite took control of college airwaves. Home- grown bands such as The Smither- eens, David David, Georgia Satel- lites and Timbuk 3 turned heads with their own individual styles. Two photos courtesy of Quad-City Times. mini-mog What in the world of SPORTS A major part of the national sports scene in the good 'ol U.S.A. was made half way around the world, off the coast of Australia. It was here that the Ameri- ca's Cup, lost to the Australian team in 1983, was held. Dennis Conner went Down Under to avenge himself and his country and ended up on top. Conner skippered the 12 meter yacht Stars and Stripes through almost four months of trials, up to the finals with the Aussie defender Kukaburra III. Conner's crew swept the best of sev- en series in four races. Closer to home, the World Series, America's annual piece of apple pie, went the entire seven games before being decided. The New York Mets won the series at home to cap off a dominating season. The Boston Red Sox didn't go down easily though. They opened the fall classic with two consecutive wins in New York, then proceeded to drop two at home. Mets third baseman Ray Knight proved too much for the Sox though, as he hit a tie-breaking home run in

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TRIVIA TRIVIA • Moolighting, one of the top series, was nominated for 16 Emmys. • More than 12,195 new AIDS cases were reported. • The average time spent view- ing TV by American households was more than seven hours per day. • Superstar Sylvester Stallone, made up to twelve million dol- lars per movie. • Late Night with David Letter- man drew 3.7 million sleepless viewers. • Matt Frewer, 28, was the world's first computer-generat- ed TV host, posing as Max Hea- droom. • About 5.9 million personal computer units were purchased in 1986. • Imelda Marcos, wife of Ferdi- nand, owned 2,975 pairs of shoes while living in the Philip- pines. • Halley's Comet came within 39 million miles of Earth, which I was its closest pass. I • Thirty-one lives were taken by I an explosion of a nuclear reac- I tor in Chernobyl, Russia. I • An average salary for a major- I league baseball player was I $412,520. I • New Philippine President, Cor- I azon Aquino, was sworn in to I office after Marcos was overth- I rown. I • A U S. astronaut's salary I ranged from $27,172 to I $70,800. I • Famous actor, Cary Grant, I died in Davenport just before he I was to appear on stage. 96 mini-mag