In the mid-1980s he was cast by William Friedkin to star in To Live and Die In L. A., in which Dafoe portrays counterfeiter Rick Masters.

By the mid-1980s bands were beginning to emerge from the L. A. scene that pursued a less glam image and a rawer sound, particularly Guns N ' Roses, breaking through with the chart-topping Appetite for Destruction ( 1987 ), and Jane's Addiction, who emerged with their major label debut Nothing's Shocking, the following year.

The 3. 9 L version proved unreliable but the 3. 3 L engine found many uses during the mid-1980s, and was particularly successful in the C2 category, powering many privateers cars, mostly Spices and Tigas, to class victories around the world.

The wildly popular Kinkeshi figurines came to the United States in the mid-1980s under the brand name M. U. S. C. L. E., which stands for " Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere ".

It was developed in the mid-1980s by Loren Carpenter and Robert L. Cook at Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Research Group, which is now Pixar.

Developer George Herscu, head of the Australian-based real estate firm L. J. Hooker, first proposed to build a mall in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid-1980s.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Johan Cruijff returned to the club in 1981, with the club producing some talented youngsters in the mid-1980s such as Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

Religious use in Brazil was legalized after two official inquiries into the tea in the mid-1980s, which concluded that ayahuasca is not a recreational drug and has valid spiritual uses.

In the mid-1980s, Grant began touring and recording with young up-and-coming songwriter Michael W. Smith.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

It was unlikely, however, that it would return to the robust form of the mid-1980s.

The concept of a blitzkrieg Luftwaffe was challenged by Richard Overy in the late 1970s and by Williamson Murray in the mid-1980s.

By 1966, when Graham appeared in Greenville, BJU enrollment had strongly rebounded and continued to grow thereafter until the mid-1980s.

By the mid-1980s at least 500 courses in business ethics reached 40, 000 students, using some twenty textbooks and at least ten casebooks along supported by professional societies, centers and journals of business ethics.

The droughts of the late 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s caused Lake Chad to shrink once again, however.

Research in the mid-1980s found that juvenile salmon were suffering substantially from the predatory pikeminnow, and in 1990, in the interest of protecting salmon, a " bounty " program was established to reward anglers for catching pikeminnow.

The drop in commodity prices for its principal exports — petroleum, cocoa, coffee, and cotton — in the mid-1980s, combined with an overvalued currency and economic mismanagement, led to a decade-long recession.

Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after ( such as Get Fuzzy, Over the Hedge, Monty, and others ) are known for their heavy use of storylines, lasting between one and three weeks in most cases.

He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.

Also notable is the work of British zoologist and cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, who has published 12 books and countless articles on numerous cryptozoological subjects since the mid-1980s.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, church executives undertook a controversial and ambitious foray into electronic broadcast media.

Australia undertook significant economic reform under the Australian Labor Party in the mid-1980s.

A $ 3. 5 million project to renovate and expand the Wabash Station, a rail depot built in 1910 and converted into the city's transit center in the mid-1980s, was completed in summer of 2007.

From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, " Clark Kent " was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people.

From the mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to portray the movement as the " democratic resistance ," members started describing themselves as.

By the mid-1980s this type of tube was functionally obsolete.

A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.

After the fair, the Playhouse became the Seattle Repertory Theatre ; in the mid-1980s it became the Intiman Playhouse.

In the mid-1980s Smits acted in numerous performances at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York.

Swinton worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, before embarking on a career in film in the mid-1980s.

The constant ranking of her ' 80s releases of the ' 80s as moderate or minor R & B hits led Houston to concentrate on alternate exposure: having appeared in the independent film The Seventh Dwarf in 1979, Houston made guest-starring appearances into the mid-1980s in several popular television programs including Cagney & Lacey, Simon & Simon-a January 1986 appearance that featured her performing " You Used to Hold Me So Tight "-and Faerie Tale Theatre.

Both theaters are architectural conversions of private meeting halls: the Harvard Exit, in the former home of the Woman's Century Club ( converted in the early 1970s ) and the Egyptian Theatre, in a former Masonic lodge ( converted in the mid-1980s ).

Rapp and Rapp's 1914 Orpheum Theatre closed in the mid-1980s and now houses a children's science museum.

The North Ryde Skyline Drive-In Theatre was opened in 1956 on the southern corner of Waterloo and Lane Cove Roads, adjoining the newly built North Ryde High School, and operated until the mid-1980s.

In the mid-1980s, he and McKellen formed an actor-centred troupe within the National Theatre ; their first productions were Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

During the mid-1980s, Peter Hall at the National Theatre repeatedly refused to allow him to direct his new play Human Cannon, written for Yvonne Bryceland and the wide stage of the Olivier.

He remained a frequent performer at the Citizens ' Theatre during the late 1970s and through the mid-1980s.

Outhwaite attended the Stagestruck Theatre Company as a teenager, taking part in several productions during the mid-1980s.

Milmoe attended Manchester's Contact Youth Theatre in her teens, before going on to make frequent stage and screen appearances in the mid-1980s and early ' 90s.