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Pop-Culture

1980

The Official Preppy Handbook


Lisa Birnbach - 1980
    Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be registered Republican. In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. It's only fair. The Official Preppy Handbook will help you get there.

POPism: The Warhol Sixties


Andy Warhol - 1980
    In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells all—the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.

Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars


Donald Bogle - 1980
    Brown Sugar narrates the triumphant struggle of these women to make it in the entertainment undustry against overwhelming odds.

From Fringe To Flying Circus: Celebrating A Unique Generation Of Comedy, 1960 1980


Roger Wilmut - 1980
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The Third Time Around


George Burns - 1980
    

California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture


Jim Heimann - 1980
    These buildings were designed to catch the eye, to be remembered. No ad agency conceived them—they were often designed by the owners themselves, poured of ferro concrete and shaped by the undisguised desire to sell.