Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...layers of makeup, elaborate hairdos and drop-dead gowns seem a far cry from the ideal of "natural" beauty that arose in the 1960s and '70s. Yet the actresses so lavishly accoutred insist that their roles are not a step backward for the feminist movement. "Natural is wonderful, but natural can also get a little boring," says Fairchild, 34. "I think the women's liberation movement finally has come full circle. Women have come to be confident enough in themselves that they don't feel they have to be stripped of everything to be taken seriously, that...
Since the end of Gingerich's tenure as Bureau chief, it has changed considerably, he says, primarily as a result of advances in the field of astrophysics. In the 1960s, for example, the reports of comet sightings and planet locations dominated the information released, but today such information is commonly supplemented by reports of newer phenomena such as pulsars...
...portraits (including an occasional TIME cover: Feminist Kate Millett, 1970, Franklin Roosevelt, 1982) of cancer; in New York City. Neel starved during the Depression but eventually partook of the New Deal's WPA assistance. Long submerged in the tide of abstract expressionism, she was rediscovered in the late 1960s, and following a 1974 retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum had numerous one-woman and group shows...
Publication of The Wapshot Chronicle (1957), his first novel, brought Cheever the first of his many awards and a period of relative financial security. Susan remembers these heady times, which stretched through the 1960s: "His marriage was still exciting, his children were thriving, and we all made a lot of 'Will success spoil John Cheever?' jokes. Later, success and celebrity took a big toll on my father and he became quite pompous about himself...
...public; the term "space-age" may not refer to the future any longer. Space travel has advanced so significantly over the last decade that the even the concept of the colonization of space has moved off the movie screen and onto the drawing board. After a surge in the 1960s and subsequent curtailment, space technology now appears ready to move into...