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Topic: 1980s

Mother and daughter having fun together while dancing in the kitchen (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Why Gen-Z loves watching Gen-X dance

Gabriella Ferrigine
Toshiro Mifune (1920 - 1997, left), as Yoshi Toranaga, and American actor Richard Chamberlain as John Blackthorne, examine a samurai sword in the TV miniseries 'Shogun', 1980. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

How 1980's "Shogun" evoked Japanophilia

Melanie McFarland
Missing child concept with an empty playground swing and the shadow of a little girl on the park ground (Getty Images/wildpixel)

What '80s kids also remember

Paul Crenshaw
Totally Killer (Prime Video)

This new final girl is "Totally Killer"

Melanie McFarland
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Totally Killer (Prime Video)

'80s outfits worthy of being stabbed for

Nardos Haile
Karina Longworth (Photo by Lee Jameson)

Sex and the cinema girl Karina Longworth

Kyle Turner
President Ronald Reagan, campaigning for a second term of office, smiles during a rally speech at the California State Capitol the day before the 1984 presidential election. (Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Rap, Reagan and the 1980s

Stefan M. Bradley - The Conversation
Lazy Summer Pasta (Mary Elizabeth Williams)

Enjoy this pasta with "Stranger Things"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Martin Fry of ABC (Paradise Artists)

ABC's Martin Fry, the love song rebel

Annie Zaleski
Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, and Joe Keery as Steve Harrington in "Stranger Things" (Netflix)

The lure of "Stranger Things"

Alison Stine
Kate Bush - Peter's Pop Show - 1985 (ZIK Images/United Archives via Getty Images)

Why Kate Bush's music spans generations

Lorna Piatti-Farnell - The Conversation
Finn Wolfhard as Mike WHeeler, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in "Stranger Things" (Courtesy of Netflix)

The frustrations of "Stranger Things"

Davida G. Breier
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Rudolph Giuliani poses for a photographer in a New York City studio December 15, 1986. (Yvonne Hemsey/Newsmakers)

Rudy and me: A fable of the '80s

Gary May
Rose Byrne in “Physical,” a new dramedy from creator Annie Weisman (Apple TV+)

Let's get "Physical" with new '80s show

Kylie Cheung
(Shutterstock)

A transgender Army bride in the '80s

Brian Belovitch
(Getty Images)

How lasers became synonymous with cool

Jason Rhode
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Tom Wolfe (AP/Salon)

What "Bonfire" missed about New York

Jim Sleeper
Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, Sept. 22, 1983. (AP/Ray Howard)

How Trump made fake news in the 1980s

Sean Deveney
Molly Ringwald (Kevin Carlin)

Molly Ringwald has earned her voice

Gary M. Kramer
Steve Martin and John Candy in “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” (Paramount Pictures)

The best Thanksgiving movie ever made

Kevin Smokler
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Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, and Sadie Sink in "Stranger Things" (Netflix)

Sinister innocence of Reagan's America

Kevin Smokler
The band Toto accepting a Grammy Award, Feb. 23, 1983. (AP)

Why Toto's "Africa" endures

Annie Zaleski
The Psychedelic Furs; Depeche Mode; Echo & the Bunnymen (Legacy/Sire)

1987: The year alt-rock broke

Annie Zaleski
(AP/Getty/Salon/Mireia Triguero Roura)

Of mice and murder, and Reagan

Peter Birkenhead
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