Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nostalgia students can hardly be astonished. The '20s, '30s and '40s have all passed in review. Gatsby, The Sting and The Way We Were indicate that they are passing still. The '50s, ever in character, have been waiting silently for their turn. No one can begrudge the decade its place in the fun; yet anyone over the age of 25 may object to the prefix Fabulous...
...many Argentines still feel uncomfortable with Isabelita as La Presidenta. They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...
Once the eye gets used to the quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was. His leanest years were in Paris in the early '20s when, he claimed later, he was obliged to live on dried figs and use the hallucinations caused by hunger to loosen up his imagery. Even then Miró managed to raise the money to journey back to his family village of Montroig, a community of farmers and peasant craftsmen, where he spent six months of every year...
...LISTENERS. Performing groups that attract this crowd include the Moody Blues, Yes, Weather Report and The Eleventh House. The music is predominately classical or jazz rock. The listeners tend to be Heavy Metal graduates-youths ranging in age into the early 20s, who know and care about musicianship. Sedated by grass, Seconals and Quaaludes, they tend to applaud rather than scream their approval...
SQUEAKY CLEANS. A description used by Singer Bette Midler to characterize fans of the soft, often poetic songs of such bards as Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Melanie. This is an orderly dating crowd in its late teens and early 20s who are interested in love songs. Girls generally outnumber the boys by 2 to 1. Melanie's ethereal fans tend to invade the stage, only to sit quietly at her feet, perhaps lighting candles. Mitchell's following emulates her. "Since Joni started wearing gowns," says Wolf, "the girls have started wearing dresses and makeup...