Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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24 style Styles and fads change throughout the years. They come and go constantly. The classic preppie look was around this year. Sweaters over turtle necks and pinned kilt skirts were just part of the preppie look. Designer jeans and spike heels were also popular. Hairstyles also change year to year. One, the punk hairstyle, was somewhat like a wiffle and usually very short. Long hair made a come back along with all kinds of braids. Gold chains were a popular accessory. One or many chains were worn over all sorts of clothing. The price of gold, however, was outrageous. Other popular accessories this year were feather earrings and ceramic pins. Style once again proved to be a major influence in high school life. There were some new styies and some old. All of them combined helped to mnkfi tho vonr uninue.

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a sleeper becomes year ' s biggest hit The film The Elephant Man was not taken from the : Broadway play of the same : name, which was primarily : fiction. It claimed to be the ; true account of John Merrick i who was hideously deformed I and resigned to life as a circus I freak until rescued by a London surgeon. John Hurt, in the role of Merrick, at first presented a horrifying character, but as the film continued. Hurt exposed the tortured man beneath the make up. The horror was a I little bit overdone, but with the effect of black and white photography, the film captured the dark underside of a society that used its freaks as entertainment. It ridiculed an exploited them, rather than treating them as y human beings. the economy in deeper trouble Inflation, which used to be a rare problem, became a chronic one. Week after week, interest rates cracked new recrods. Homeowners faced 17% mortgages, companies confronted 20% business loans and energy became so costly that it was difficult to keep the nation going. The output of goods per hour worked dropped .9%. The income of American families did not increase and inflation continued to rise. Since inflation is an excess of demand over supply, a balance between the two would theoretically lower inflation. The answer seemed simple. The problem was to find ways to increase the supply. it cost a lot but would it fly Hail Columbia, officially called a Space Transportation System, and known as the space shuttle for short. The Columbia, the most powerful and complicated craft ever put together by NASA, was designed to be able to go into space and come back to Earth intact, unlike previous spacecrafts. The space shuttle system could help to find mineral resources on Earth, contribute substantially to the domestic economy, survey the oceans, keep track of weather patterns, and help bring solar energy down to Earth. Because of complications the project was two years behind schedule and $3.6 billion over budget, but everyone ' s hopes for the shuttle ' s future were very high. Space shuttle Columbia k car Chrysler hope Chrysler ' s fight with bankruptcy was temporarily alleviated by $155 billion in government loans, but they were still in serious trouble. Their hope for survival was the new K car. There were two models in the K car plan, the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant. They were front wheel drive compacts and Chairman Lee lacocca called them the American way to beat the pump in his sales pitch. The K cars were expected to support 50% of Chrysler ' s total sales for the year, but there were several other new models planned, lacocca predicted a profit for the company in the fourth quarter, but the company was likely to lose more than $1 billion Show and tell at the white house images 23

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( 1 1 . Cheryl Meehan exhibits the conservative preppie look of this fall. 2 . Donna Nigerian finds that designer jeans are appealing to the eye but not so to the pocket. 3 . Laura Mayne displays two popular trends, a French braid, and feather earrings. 4 . The national obsession of wearing gold is shown here by Cheryl Medieros. 5 . Patty Sweeney, Cheryl LaRosa, Jennifer Snow, Karen Lavargna and Christine Keller enjoy themselves at a disco rollerskating session. style 25