Eldorado High School - Sunburst Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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f I , A . I .I 14 .,.., Janet Jackson, who was nominated for nine American Music awards, stands backstage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles with the crystal award she received for favorite soul and rhythm- and-blues single with her hit Nasty. Superstar Michael Jackson in a scene from his three dimen- sional space fantasy film in which he performs the songs he wrote and Droduced. L I '4 Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis are the stars of the hit television series Moonlighting, -wg One of the hottest television shows starred a little furry Alien Life Form - also known as ALE. a Superstar Whitney Houston performs at New York's Madi- son Square Garden in Septem- ber. lt was her first New York, appearance since 1985, Actor Charlie Sheen shown here in character for his role in the romantic comedy film Three for the Road. One of the top-rated television shows this year is Bill Cosby Show. The liuxtable a nurse who shook up the talent com- petition with a polynesian dance, was crowned Miss America 1988. Miss Michigan, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, L ' K , ,, , 'A I F Tl C- f i .V 'A rv i , W A '.:- I cm- ' AS f 1 B , . 'L 4 ,,,, , ,V y . - if L. Actor Tom Cruise poses with his new star on the hollywood walk of fame on Hollywood Blvd. Cruise staned in Riskey Business and George Michael Perfonns in family, ftop, Iell to rightl Phyllcla Rashad as Clair, Sabrina Le Beauf as Sondra, June at the Wembly Arena in Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theo, Tempestt as Vanessa: fbottom, left to rlghtl Bill London to a selpout Crowd of Cosby as Cliff Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy. 1s,ooo. A Top Gun. His latest film was The Color of Money with Paul Newman. f Year 203 In Reveiw

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1937-1988 YE RIN emorable is one way to de- scribe 1987. The events that occured will definitely make its mark in American history. .1987 could even affect the American viewpoint. The Summit meeting between Presi- dent Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev concerning the treaty to ban medium- and short- range nucler weapons in Europe and Asia was a positive sign towards good foreign relations . . . tlai- tl's first scheduled ballotting in 50 years was to take place in 1987. The polling was cancelled because voters were killed by violent mobs . . . Ollie- mania spreads through the United States during the lran-Contra hearings. President Reagan denied knowledge of what was going on. The Iran-Contra Committee Report, however, stated that responsibility for the events rested with the President Supreme Court nominee Richard Bork was rejected be- cause of his judicial philosophies. Douglas Ginsburg was the second nominee for the' Supreme Court. l'lis admission to the use of marijuana caused him to lose popularity . . . Scan- dalous affairs with prominent leader- shlp figures seemed to appear sudden- ly. Donna Rice gained a spark of fame for her involvement to presidential can- REVIE , herwatfair with PTL evangelist, Jim Bakker, public. Jim and Tammy Bakker, the couple who had gotten rich by donations sent to them, have now lost their PTL empire-due to Jim's un- falthfulness The spread of AIDS continued across America. This caused people to think about taking preventive measures and to protect themselves against the disease. Many educational programs and commer- clals that have been produced in the past year provide necessary informa- tion Beulah Mae Donald sued the Ku Klux Klan because her youngest son, 19-year-old Michael Donald, had been lynched. Members of the Klan had been responsible for his death and had felt no remorse. Two Klan mem- bers had been convicted for their crime, but Beulah Mae Donald still tiled sult against the Klan. She won and was awarded 7 million dollars .. . Lisa Steinburg died in 1987. She was a vic- tim of child abuse. Over a thousand people came to her funeral, most of whom were strangers . . . 1987 was indeed a year to re- member. Confllcting human emotion- happiness, misery, pain, anger -were , felt by all. lllle'II always remember in our hearts and minds, the year that was. didate Gary Hart. Jessica rlahn made gs lu The Golden Gate Brldge in San francisco celebrated its 50th birthday. About 250,000 people jammed onto the bridge for an anniversary walk across the span. Another 500,000 packed the brldge approaches but were denied access because the engineers feared the span could not support the weight. l rm g g 'I The Senate rejected President Reagan's nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote, which ended a long contentious debate over a judge altemately portrayed as a brilliant jurist and a dangerous extresist. All but one of the cats in the backstage gathering at the Kinter- garden Theater are members of the Broadway musical Cat The odd cat out is Morris, the television commercial character. paying a vlsit to his fellow showbuslness feline cousins. The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 508 points, the largest in history, on Monday, October 19. Some called it a crash, others called it a meltdown and others called it Black Monday. Whatever it was, it stripped S500 billion from the market value of U.S. securities. 'M , President and Mrs. Reagan greeted Pope Paul ll when he arrived in Miami to begin a nine-city tour of the United States. 'Q 202 Year ln Review L , w

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V N r V l I V i w i i 1987- 988 E a YE RI L REVIEW -J -' . I A 24-day strike by the NFL players ended in mid-October whwn the union capitulated and went to cour instead of trying to light the club owners at the bargaining table. A Dennis Conner, the man who lost the Amerlca's Cup in 1985, won it back four years later. The Stars and Stripes completed a 4-0 sweep over Austalia's Kookaburra lll in the race that took place ln Australia. Madonna greets her fans from a platfonn in New York's Tlmes Kimi' Puckett and Jeff Kflerdon of the Mifme' Square where her new movie, Who's That Girl made its New Sofa Twins Cdebfate the world Series V'Qt9' ' York debut. Her current concert tour bears the same name. W OVC' the 51- I-Ouis Cardinals- The TWUIS won the seventh and final game ofthe series 4-2. vvvv ' 4 A - Tiff 1 Q Zi- 3' , , - A U Q 5 My W A 'i ' '- li , , . ' Y K 'W ' ' l' E iii 1 E . , , , ,xg if r l 5' efsl A 4 l ',,r A t . il ,Z, ,A, 4, 5 - K f f . llt -L ' A U.S. Park Service worker scrubs the Lincoln Memorial statue of Abraham Lincoln ln Washington D.C. Every tive years the memorial gets a complete cleaning. includ- ing Amy, half- Actor Sean Penn chats with Johnny Carson during a taping ofthe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Penn ls married to Madonna. 204 Year In Review ' ,,, ,AW ,N A,.-,, ,M -Yew . MH, ,.., .1 E, M--- .4 , 44 , ,,,,, ,, A.