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Junk bond kings take center stage in a new play

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Oct 5, 2017
In Ayad Akhtar's new play "Junk," he tackles the precarious financial world of the 1980s.
Playwright Ayad Akhtar (foreground) and director Doug Hughes (background) in rehearsals for Lincoln Center Theater's JUNK. The new play examines the dark side of Wall Street in the 1980s. 
Photo courtesy of T. Charles Erickson
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What Diane Keaton can teach you about working women

by Bridget Bodnar
Jul 14, 2016
Is it easier to find a movie with positive depictions of women in the workplace in the 1980s than it is today?
Diane Keaton in the 1987 comedy "Baby Boom."
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