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...President Barack Obama’s administration.‘ONE OF A MILLION’Kagan speaks fondly of her years at the Law School but acknowledges that her positive memories were the exception rather than the norm.“When I was here in the mid-80s, those weren’t the best years. That was the baseline I had for the Law School,” Kagan said in an interview last October. “I had a very fine experience, but I was always conscious that most students did not have that view...
...signature stilted, terse cadence and morbid turn of phrase succinctly vocalized a somber resignation that threatened to stifle the once vibrant borough. Ravaged by Robert Moses’ ambitious urban planning, the Bronx—newly equipped with a gleaming expressway—literally crumbled throughout the 70s and 80s, forcing thousands of residents to seek shelter in tenements and public housing. As desperate landlords set fire to their property, hoping to reap the benefits of insurance policies, blackened, windowless towers came to punctuate the skyline of an apocalyptically desolate landscape.Joon, the protagonist of Nami Mun’s debut...
...happens, pop culture tends to react in an opposite way to what media executives and pundits predict. After 9/11, people predicted the end of irony, trash TV and screen violence; we got Stephen Colbert, The Bachelor and 24. The opulent soap Dynasty became a hit amid the massive early-'80s recession; in the Great Depression, movies like Gold Diggers of 1933 packed theaters...
...will make you cry at work: 1 • People who injure themselves: 6 • People who injure other people: 3 • Children who will grow to resent their parents for putting embarrassing footage of them on the Internet: 9 • Things that are funny because they're from the '80s: 6 • Home-shopping TV screwups: 2 • Sports videos: 2 • Acts of bad journalism: 9 • Reminder that OK Go is better at making music videos than it is at making music: 1 • Inaccurate portrayal of American history: 1 • Fat people: 4 • Angry Germans...
...spent one full day enjoying the best and worst of the last century’s science fiction cinema. The festival’s location has changed since the event first began—moving from the old Orson Welles Theatre in Cambridge (which burned down in the mid-80s) to West Newton to its present Davis Square home. And each year’s event has a different theme (this year’s was “Alien Attack”). But the close-knit audience remains more or less the same; there are multiple people who have...