In the 1980s I remember looking forward to Nova. It was broadcast while we were at church, so my Mom videotaped it for me. I remember watching shows about the autonomous vehicle development at CMU, and automatically building 3D maps from photographs taken from car-mounted cameras - yes, people were working on those 30+ years ago!
When I was a kid and Reagan was shot, I recall my Mom telling me about the University of Texas massacre in 1966. If you don't remember that, then I think that means you were born after 1955 or so. If Columbine wasn't when you were in school, that means you were born before 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States has a comprehensive list. Most of these are not going to make the national news, not that most kids would read or watch the national news anyway.
I agree that it's odd to think kids don't play with guns any more when a cop shot Tamir Rice, who was a kid playing with a toy gun. Why does Wal-Mart sell toy BB guns, like the one that John Crawford had when a cop shot him, if no one is buying them for kids?
"Bang bang"? We just saw ads of kids in the 1950s with a Mattel Tommy Burp; modeled after a Tommy machine gun, designed as a trench broom for the wholesale slaughter of Germans in WWI, and a favorite of gangsters. That was "ratta-tata-tata-tata I just fired off 50 shots".
But hey, I moved to Sweden 10 years ago, which doesn't have the US gun culture. Kids do play with toy guns (and without orange tips), which is safe because real guns are restricted, and people don't feel that they need guns to protect themselves, so there aren't real guns about, and so the police don't always need to worry about being shot. A white supremacist went on a killing spree at a school in my city, but as he had a sword and not a gun he only managed to kill three people.
Do you think "gun culture" might have contributed to some of the mass shootings in the 1980s, like the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre or when Carl Robert Brown killed 8 people in Miami? I think it did.
In addition, one of the stereotypes for Norway (not unfounded) is an emphasis on being active outside. Oslo has 1,600 miles of prepared cross-country ski trails! - http://www.visitoslo.com/en/your-oslo/winter/cross-country-skiing/ . I visited there in winter and people were often on the subway/trams dressed up for skiing, with skis, either going to or from the trail.
She, like Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards and Eric "The Eel" Moussambani and others, is a reminder that the Olympics comes out of amateur athletics. Quoting Ranatunge Karunananda, who came in dead last in his race in the '64 Olympics and far behind the winner, "The Olympic spirit is not to win, but to take part. So I came here. I took part in the 10,000 metres and completed my rounds."
I used to love standing between two mirrors and seeing the dozens of reflections seemingly going off into the distance. A vampire would be able to see even more reflections. That would have been cool.
I think the line "no man had ever appeared nude in a magazine before" needs clarification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornographic_magazines says the Drum's "December 1965 issue was the first U.S. magazine to show male frontal nudity.
"Bang bang"? We just saw ads of kids in the 1950s with a Mattel Tommy Burp; modeled after a Tommy machine gun, designed as a trench broom for the wholesale slaughter of Germans in WWI, and a favorite of gangsters. That was "ratta-tata-tata-tata I just fired off 50 shots".
But hey, I moved to Sweden 10 years ago, which doesn't have the US gun culture. Kids do play with toy guns (and without orange tips), which is safe because real guns are restricted, and people don't feel that they need guns to protect themselves, so there aren't real guns about, and so the police don't always need to worry about being shot. A white supremacist went on a killing spree at a school in my city, but as he had a sword and not a gun he only managed to kill three people.
Because of this article, I decided to read more about Reynolds. I found https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/burt-reynolds-on-career-bankruptcy-regrets quite interesting.
I think the line "no man had ever appeared nude in a magazine before" needs clarification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornographic_magazines says the Drum's "December 1965 issue was the first U.S. magazine to show male frontal nudity.