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1983
Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. She becomes a role-model for women in the field of science and math. Ride’s quip from space “Better than an E-ticket”, harkens back to the opening of Disneyland with the E-ticket purchase needed for the best rides.
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1988
The Syringe Tide is an environmental disaster in which medical waste is found washed up on beaches in New Jersey after being illegally dumped at sea. Before this event, waste dumped in the oceans was an “out of sight, out of mind” affair. This has been cited as one of the crucial turning points in popular opinion on environmentalism.
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1984 – 1991
In 1984 a nineteen-year-old named John McCollum shoots and kills himself while listening to the music of Ozzy Osbourne, including The Blizzard of Ozz. With his headphones on and the music playing, John places a .22-caliber handgun to his head and takes his own life. Although McCollum has a long history of clinical depression, his parents sue Osbourne for their son’s death, claiming the lyrics in the song “Suicide Solution,”
Where to hide, suicide is the only way out. Don’t you know what it’s really about?
…convince McCollum to commit suicide. The courts find Osbourne not guilty.
On December 23, 1985, 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Raymond Belknap, after hours of drinking beer, smoking marijuana and allegedly listening to Judas Priest, go to a playground at a church in Sparks, Nevada with a 12-gauge shotgun to end their lives. Belknap is the first to place the shotgun under his chin, and he dies instantly after pulling the trigger. Vance then shoots himself but survives, suffering severe facial injuries. Following numerous complications Vance, too, passes away in 1988, three years after the suicide pact. In 1990, Judas Priest is named in a civil action, alleging the group is responsible for the self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The case is dismissed.
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1960
The first major payola investigation occurs, bringing radio and television personalities to court for participating. The practice of record companies paying DJs to play their products on the radio was commonplace in the 1950s. Legendary pioneers of early rock and roll promotion like Alan Freed are disgraced by the scandal.
To help prevent future payola scandals, the responsibility of choosing which songs to play is supplanted from the hands of the DJ to station programming directors. However, the practice is still alive and well in many different forms.
Getting all pent up and angry about stuff just eats away inside you Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Ft. Dan Le Sac) – Waiting for the Beat to Kick in
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Fred MacMurrary’s character in Double Indemnity)
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This is one of the lessons to be learned from the film. Walter Neff is a typical guy, but is driven to murder, theft, deceit, etc. by his desire to please a woman. Add him to list of dudes who did stupid junk because they were chasing the cat.
This is also one of the theories presented by Carl Jung; we all have villainous desires that we need to accept as a part of ourselves, trying to suppress them will just cause us to project them onto others.