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'''Entertainment:'''
* Television was going through a rough patch. While many shows were holdovers from [[The Seventies]], the networks had a very hard time keeping new shows on. What shows did survive were massive hits: Cosby, Cheers, Miami Vice, etc.
** However, this decade also showed the rise of challenging American drama series like ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'', ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', and ''[[
* TV shows also started experimenting with settings, no longer were the standard dramas and comedies confined to the three biggest cities. [[Eight Is Enough]] was set in Sacramento, for example, while [[Dueling Show]] [[Family]] was set in Pasadena. Later on, [[Washington DC]] and [[San Francisco]] became very popular in this respect.
* This is the decade where ''[[Soap Opera|Telenovelas]]'' began to be known beyond their secluded local markets, with several countries actually knowing for the first time what soaps where being done in other countries of the region (Mexico, the biggest producer of the region, being the exception). Also, productions from Mexico and Venezuela were imported heavily to Spain and other European countries. Spain got such a fever with ''Crystal'', a Venezuelan soap, that their protagonist actors eventually moved and had a quite long career across the pond. Brazilians soaps algo got an small boom, and began to experiment with newer themes and more socially relevant plots, albeit most of these productions began to be more known on other countries on the next decade.
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* Women often wore multiple pairs of socks, one over the other, of contrasting colors. You'd buy your shoes a size or so large for this purpose.
* Tights could be worn as casual wear instead of trousers. You pulled up your (multiple pairs of) socks right over the bottom of the tights. Legwarmers were optional but popular. They would often be paired with an oversized T-shirt or sweatshirt. [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d2Fh-DJOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg T-shirt clips] were big in the latter half of the decade through the early 1990's, particularly in neon.
* ''Flashdance'' in 1983 popularized off-the-shoulder [
* For a brief period of time, women, mostly teenage girls, could be seen wearing cut-off denim shorts over sheer tights with sneakers. Unsurprisingly, this look didn't last long, being considered completely terrible even by [[Everyone Has Standards|'80s standards.]]
* Given that skintight jeans could be very hard to get on or off over one's feet, some styles had zippers at the back of the ankle. While not terribly widespread, this hung on into the early nineties, until such tight jeans fell out of style.
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* [[Michael Jackson]] immortalized himself as the King of Pop during this time, scoring hits such as "Billie Jean", "Thriller", and "Beat It".
* Those bored with pop radio tuned their radios to the left side of the dial and listened to [[College Radio]]. The artists who played on these stations were [[Post Punk]] guitar bands who performed what would later be called "[[Alternative Rock]]", were often signed to small labels and usually toured the United States in a beat-up van. The "modern rock" radio format sprung up near the end of the decade just as college favorites like [[REM]] and Midnight Oil began receiving mainstream attention and these early pop successes paved the way for alternative rock becoming a major music genre in the 1990's.
* [[
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