ALR's Lexicon of the Eighties
2 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW ALFTs Lexicon of the Eighties All the fads and foibles you wish had never happened, along with a few breaths of fresh air... ISMS environmentalism monetarism economic rationalism postfemlnlsm postmodernism postmarxism postlsmlsm Thatcherism Imre Poszgay deconstructionism Kylle Mlnogue Bill Kelty pragmatism Gorbachev Jason Donovan corporatism Hacca Julia Krlsteva EVENTS Prince Joan Collins capitalism Solldarnosc Paul Keating Michel Foucault glasnost Salman Rushdie John Elliott CELEBS Afghanistan Steve Waugh Madonna Chernobyl Bob Hawke John McEnroe Margaret Thatcher Bhophal John Dawkins stockmarket crashes Jacques Derrida the Fitzgerald Inquiry Merv Hughes black deaths In cus Tony Fitzgerald tody Allan Border the environment Alan Bond Bicentenaries Sylvester Stallone Greenhouse ALF the ozone layer Kate Cebrano Joh for PM Bob Brown an Australian cricket Christopher Skase victory Michael Jackson a new left party Peter Carey the Beijing massacre Boris Yeltsin Hungarian elections Jean Baudrlllard the Accord Jimmy Barnes P h oto: John and Sons earphones skateboards preppies hl-tech Dr Martens market market research 50s 50s nostalgia house acid airheads yuppies New New Age Ecstasy Fatal Attraction rap Ray-Bans flattop haircuts 60s nostalgia Reeboks Reaganomics dlnkles the New the New Right Thlrtysomethlng 70s nostalgia 100% Mambo Wall St FADS
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