With the gradual break-up of the Python troupe between Life of Brian in 1979 and The Meaning of Life in 1983, Gilliam became a screenwriter and director, building upon the experience he had acquired during the making of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

* Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future ( 1953, second edition 1979, with John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Fletcher Pratt, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard )

In his 1979 book Subculture the Meaning of Style, Dick Hebdige argued that a subculture is a subversion to normalcy.

* 1979 Hildred Geertz and Lawrence Rosen Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis.

* Searle, J. R., " A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts ", pp. 1 – 19 in Searle, J. R., Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press, ( Cambridge ), 1979.

* The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization ( 1979 ), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-11202-4

* The Meaning of Hitler ISBN 0-674-55775-1, 1979 English translation translated by Ewald Osers, published by the Harvard University Press

* The Meaning of Hitler ISBN 1-85799-878-2, 1979 English translation translated by Ewald Osers, published by Orion books, United Kingdom

He is best known for his influential book in subcultural studies, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979.

Abzug then founded and ran several women's advocacy organizations, in 1979 Women U. S. A., and continued to lead feminist advocacy events, for example serving as grand marshall of the 1980 August 26 Women's Equality Day New York March.

He left the party in 1979 at the time of the first direct European elections, to present a list of candidates under the slogan " Emploi, Égalité, Europe " ( Employment, Equality, Europe ) with Giroud.

Shortly before his death in 1979, he put together ten of his most significant essays in The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality, and Opportunity.

* Equality ( 1979, with Sir Keith Joseph ) ISBN 0-7195-3651-0

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.

* " Bloody Sunday ", a 1979 song by Stiff Little Fingers

" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".

* Penrose, Roger: " Singularities and time-asymmetry ", Chapter 12 in General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey ( Hawking and Israel, editors ), ( 1979 ), see especially section 12. 3. 2, pp. 617 – 629 ( ISBN 0-521-22285-0 )

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

In 1979, the Sugar Hill Gang released " Rapper's Delight ", the first hip-hop record to become a hit.

The final piece in what Bowie called his " triptych ", Lodger ( 1979 ), eschewed the minimalist, ambient nature of the other two, making a partial return to the drum-and guitar-based rock and pop of his pre-Berlin era.

Dewar called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a " nationalist shibboleth ", mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly in the 1979 referendum.

Devo also appeared on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in 1979, performing " Blockhead ", " Secret Agent Man ", and " Mongoloid ".

Mountbatten expressed his feelings towards the use of nuclear weapons in combat in his article " A Military Commander Surveys The Nuclear Arms Race ", which was published shortly after his death in International Security in the winter of 1979 – 80.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

" The Genius of Shaw: A symposium ", Hodder & Stoughton, 1979

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

* Burge, Tyler ( 1979 ) " Individualism and the Mental ", in French, Uehling, and Wettstein ( eds.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He earned his master's degree in theater from The Catholic University of America ( CUA ) in Washington, D. C., where he met his first wife, actress Susan Sarandon ; they divorced in 1979.

* Jason Chimera ( born 1979 ), NHL ice hockey forward for the Washington Capitals

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

* 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1 / 2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.

From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.

The logo replaced the striping pattern that had been on the uniforms since the team's inception ; save for color variations, the striping pattern was similar to that used by the Washington Redskins ( until 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( until 1997 ), and Cleveland Browns ( still in use ), which is likely why the change was made.

* 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

* 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D. C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands " an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people ", and draws 200, 000 people.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

By the time of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 Rhodesia only had representative offices in London, Bonn, Pretoria, Washington, D. C. and Tokyo.

* February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1 / 2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.

The Novoselic family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1979, due to rising property prices in California.

On June 16, 1986, Katz made two of the most controversial and highly criticized personnel moves in franchise history, trading Moses Malone to Washington and the first overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft ( which had been obtained from the San Diego Clippers in a 1979 trade for Joe Bryant ) to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

She served as publisher from 1969 to 1979 and headed The Washington Post Company into the early 1990s as chairman of the board and CEO.

* Rich Milot, graduate of Moon Area High School, a former American football linebacker who played his entire nine year career with the Washington Redskins from 1979 to 1987 in the National Football League.

Washington DC: United States Army Center of Military History, 1979.

Washington DC: United States Army Center of Military History, 1979.

* George Townsend Turner ( 1906 – 1979 ), philatelist of Washington, D. C.

Due to its high altitude, Mount Washington receives an extremely large quantity of precipitation, averaging an equivalent of around of rain per year, with a record high of in 1969 and low of in 1979.

Prior to the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, Ferdowsi University had taken for its ally Georgetown University of Washington, D. C., USA.

The ideology and praxis of neo-colonialism are discussed in the works of Jean-Paul Sartre ( Colonialism and Neo-colonialism, 1964 ) and Noam Chomsky ( The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, 1979 ).

Tacoma, Washington: Bomber Books, 1979.