Tell me something convincing about that year.
Tell me something convincing about that year.
Some things that happened more or less around that time were Yuri Andropov, Cold War tension, Michael Jackson, The Day After, Amerika, Tron, John McEnroe, the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64.
There were massive anti-nuclear weapon protests in Europe. TV advertisements showed an amazing product, the plastic 2-liter soda bottle, falling and not breaking. Tennis racquets were made of wood. IBM PC monitors were pretty much all monochrome. Cars made by Nissan were still known as Datsun.
Also that's when the guy that shot the Sopranos bought his clothes.
It was a great year for post-punk music. U2 released the Unforgettable Fire, and the Violent Femmes and REM released their first albums.
You had to hear these on college radio stations though. Commercial radio was a blend of Air Supply and Sister Sledge.
I hooked up with some groupies on the set of Gremlins wearing my Dad's penny loafers. Those were simpler days with land line phones and catalog card libraries.
I watched War Games on my 14th birthday. And learned to program in BASIC.
Stop making sense.
M00003 wrote:
Tell me something convincing about that year.
1983 was the year in which Sean Penn made the press corp in Hollyweird stand up and take notice that he was a very special young talent indeed...he'd already been known as "Sean De Niro" by those in & around his acting class (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Feury) for his dedication and chameleonic gifts, but when he followed up his wonderful comic turn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High in 1982 (
https://youtu.be/JxPBDWjp1qM) with his absolutely dissimilar and deeply moving work in 1983's Bad Boys (https://youtu.be/hPoxee46S4s ) the critics--and certainly his peers--realized that he was no one-trick pony, but an extraordinarily capable actor...
What a feeling!
Google search hadn't been invented so it was much more difficult to troll USENET than LetsRun.com/forum.
Journey was at the top of their game touring in support of the Frontiers album. It was a magical summer.
I completed my first Boston Marathon that year. The finish line then was located in front of Prudential Center on a thoroughfare called Ring Road. There was hardly any crowd control at Boston College or Wellesley College. Students stood IN the road, constricting runners, screaming in their ears. Those were crazy loud gauntlets.
I was born in 1970 and have lived continuously since then.
Oh yeah, that was the infamous poutine shortage of '83, eh.
That was the year I ran 2:53:30 at Jersey Shore. According to my running journal, the race took place on November 13. If you put that date into Google, it turns out to be a Sunday.
I'm pretty sure that "The Day After" was shown on TV that fall. My then-GF and I walked up to Riverside Church and watched it in a big hall with hundreds, perhaps several thousand, other people.
And yes, when I put "the day after" and "1983" into the NY Times search engine, I get the following editorial note:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/30/opinion/l-women-of-day-after-078795.html
That's probably why I ran so fast: I was afraid of being nuked.
And here's a NYT note on the race, published the following day. Tom Fleming won.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/14/sports/fleming-captures-shore-marathon.html
And here's an article on the film's viewings across America--including the one I attended:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/us/atomic-war-film-spurs-nationwide-discussion.html
Future NFL linebacker Carl Banks was in my college speech/communications class.
The Sixers got Moses Malone for them to play center.
Malone, along with forwards Dr. J and Marc Iavaroni, shooting guard Andrew Toney, point guard Maurice Cheeks and 6th man Bobby Jones stormed the playoffs to win the NBA championships.
Moses was calling for "Fo, Fo and Fo" but they went Fo, Fi, Fo as they dropped a game to the Bucks in the second round before sweeping the Lakers in the final.
(That's all off the top of my head without a search)
I was playing a lot of Donkey Kong at the bowling alley that year along with Tempest and Defender.
Ahh yes, the the year the Sixers finally put it all together. I loved MM, the only guy who I think sweated more than I do. Used to feel for those kids with the mops after Moses' FTs.