Most famous among those controversies was the " Brooke Book " issue of 1983, which satirized an actress named " Brook Shell " who had been purportedly accepted into Princeton -- a thinly veiled jab at the real-life actress-model Brooke Shields, shortly after she was accepted into Princeton's class of 1987.

Based on the real-life gang rape of Cheryl Araujo that occurred at Big Dan's Bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1983, this film was one of the first Hollywood films to deal with rape in a direct manner.

Author Nelson Algren included a variation of the message in his 1983 book, The Devil's Stocking, a fictionalized account of the trial of Rubin Carter, a real-life prize-fighter who had been found guilty of double murder.

The story continues right up to 1983, and follows Oshin's adult life as she becomes a wife, raises children of her own, and experiences real-life events-including earthquakes and World War II.

* 1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison.

* In 1983, English-American rock group The Pretenders, released their song " Back on the Chain Gang ", featuring the lyrics " The phone, TV and the News of the World got into the house like a pigeon from hell ..." Written by the group's singer, Chrissie Hynde, the song was about the band's experience of losing their guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, to a drug overdose, and these lines were in reference to the surviving members ' inability to escape the story at the time.

Four years before his retirement he had a cameo role in the February 17, 1983 episode of Cheers entitled " No Contest ," which featured him ducking into the bar to escape a woman who pestered him on the street about his political ideals.

One book, published anonymously using a Chinese pseudonym in 1983, claimed that Mao had actually had Lin and his wife killed in Beijing, and that Lin Liguo had attempted to escape by air.

In 1983, he and Cherie Curie starred in the science fiction movie Wavelength in which he played a washed up rock star who helps extraterrestrials escape from a military base.

In six novels published between 1977 and 1983, he struggles against the satanic Lord Foul, " The Despiser ", who intends to escape the bondage of the physical universe and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, " The Creator ".

In Action Comics # 544 ( June 1983 ), Brainiac had constructed a giant, artificial, computer-controlled planet and used it in his latest attempt to destroy Superman ; unfortunately, his defeat at the hands of the Man of Steel left him trapped at the center of the planet, unable to escape.

Cornelia " Corrie " ten Boom ( Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 15, 1892 – Orange, California, April 15, 1983 ) was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

In Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 movie To Be or Not to Be ( as well as in Mel Brooks ' remake in 1983 ), an actor from a Polish stage group impersonates Hitler to enable the escape of the troupe to England.

In 1983 four prisoners escaped from ‘ escape proof ’ Jika Jika.

* Corrie ten Boom ( 1892 – 1983 ), Dutch Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

Lindseys initial book was followed by The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy ( 1983 ), an account of Christopher Boyce's escape from Federal prison and subsequent bank robbing spree.

He was involved in the Maze Prison escape known as the “ Great escape ” in 1983, when 38 republican prisoners broke out of the H Blocks.

Marilyn Jean Buck ( December 13, 1947 – August 3, 2010 ) was an American Marxist revolutionary, convict, and feminist poet, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brinks robbery and the 1983 U. S. Senate bombing.

In 1983 Buck was recaptured and convicted of participating in Shakur's escape.

When she was four ( in 1983 ) her family decided to flee to West Germany to escape Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime in Communist Romania.

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1983 – Nick Diaz, American mixed martial artist

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

In 1963, Rowney ( now part of Daler-Rowney Ltd since 1983 ) was the first manufacturer to introduce an artist ’ s acrylic color in Europe, under the brand name Cryla.

Barney Bubbles ( born Colin Fulcher, 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983 ) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.

Georges Prosper Remi ( 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983 ), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.

* Manolito Tolentino Mayo ( 1955 – 1983 ), Philippine artist

Elizabeth Mead ( 1909 – 1983 ), an artist and teacher, married cartoonist William Steig, and Priscilla Mead ( 1911 – 1959 ) married author Leo Rosten.

Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend, 1973, The Electric Plough, 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been, 1983, though these did not enjoy commercial success.

* 1983 – Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist

He followed that up some years later by declaring that the Iberian Peninsula rotated precisely at Perpignan station 132 million years ago – an event the artist invoked in his 1983 painting Topological Abduction of Europe – Homage to René Thom.

From 1983 until his death in 1984, Burton was married to make-up artist Sally Hay.

While countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay were dictatorships that censored elements of Nueva canción in in the late 1970s and early 1980s the Sandinista movement that rose to power with the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979 welcomed Nueva canción, and several artist gave support to the movement like Mercedes Sosa and Silvio Rodríguez who played in the Abril en Nicaragua concert in 1983.

* Wim Kan ( 1911 – 1983 ), cabaret artist

* Danny Lelieveld ( 4 August 1983 ), Dutch graphic artist and musician

* Audrey Assad ( born 1983 ), contemporary Christian music artist with Sparrow Records.

In 1983, she married artist Stephan Weiss, who would later become co-CEO of the Donna Karan company.

After disbanding a second time in 1983, Farner continued as a solo performer and became a Christian recording artist.

* Georges Rémi a. k. a. Hergé, comics writer and artist, creator of The Adventures of Tintin ( 1907 – 1983 )

Pitseolak Ashoona, ( 1904 or 1907 or 1908 – 1983 ; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐊᓲᓇ ) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works.

Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this " notoriously belligerent personality ", who emerges as one of the most important Irish Neoclassical artists.

The total sales of Michiya Mihashi's work surpassed 100 million records in 1983, making him the first artist to achieve that in Japan.

* Ivan Le Lorraine Albright ( 1897 – 1983 ) was a painter and artist

She has three grandchildren by her eldest son, Stan: Aurora, born in March 1983 and Abra, born in February 1985, both to author Ivy Strick, and Myles, born in 1998 to artist Emily Goldstein.