Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIVORCE THESE DAYS IS OUR PARIS in the '20s, an adventure of alienation and unfamiliar cooking that we write novels about. Too many novels and too whiny the reader decides. The genre is one that is not petering out but should. Until then, an amiable and cheerfully unwhiny exception is Thomas McGuane's Nothing but Blue Skies. The author's hero is a fortyish Deadrock, Montana, ^ businessman named Frank Copenhaver, who misplaces his marbles when his wife Gracie packs her bags. In this addlepated condition, he galumphs about drinking too much (or not enough; this isn't clear), getting into...
...term he coined from the Russian words meaning project of the affirmation of the new -- resemble plans or aerial views of Utopian structures, an abstract New Jerusalem in paint. They are a middle ground between Malevich's absolutism and the more pragmatic agitprop efforts of artists in the '20s...
Criminologists predict that the population of young offenders will explode in the decade to come. Just as crime began to surge in the late '60s, when the postwar baby-boom generation reached its teens and early 20s, the children of those baby boomers are committing their first offenses. And for many of them, pulling out a gun is just a funny game with the little girl on the corner...
...hand, Norman, the one with a future, is nicknamed preacher. Craig Sheffer plays him with the naivete and broad smile of an F. Scott Fitzgerald character. An east coast education, a few Montana speak-easies, and a flapper wanna-be for a girlfriend (Emily Lloyd) round out the roaring 20s atmosphere...
Police officers would not confirm the identity of the two individuals. The man is Caucasian, in his 20s, and has a beard and mustache. As of last night, police were unable to say whether the two are affiliated with Harvard...