Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have long since slipped out of the auditorium muttering to themselves. For those still glued to their chairs, a corollary to an old adage will probably have occurred: if it is still true that the only life worth living is the examined one, it may be that in 20th century America the only life worth examining is the headlong one. Incaution on the scale that Kazan has practiced it is now a rarity, not only in the arts but everywhere else in our public life. So is the range of Kazan's achievements, both authentic and dubious...
...which gave second-year Coach Ed Krass a second Ancient Eight championship, earned the Crimson its fifth-straight bid to the NCAA Championships, which will begin Wednesday at UCLA. Harvard--seeded 20th in the tournament--will play Trinity University, the 13th seed...
...that week, walking through Tercentenary Theater, I saw a good friend of mine who lived next to me last year. He is an Orioles fan, but he wasn't looking particularly bleak even though Baltimore had lost its 20th in a row the previous...
Hill Street's success was followed by Bochco's most notable failure: Bay City Blues, an ensemble show about a minor-league baseball team, canceled after just four episodes in 1983. Less than two years later, Bochco was ousted from Hill Street and MTM. But he resurfaced quickly at 20th Century Fox, where he began working on an idea that had been percolating for a year and a half: a Hill Street-style ensemble drama about a high-powered contemporary law firm. L.A. Law, which debuted in September 1986, caught on almost immediately...
Judis, an editor at the leftward newsmagazine In These Times, fosters this and like assessments without endorsing them. He is more definite in his conclusion: since conservatism triumphed with the election of his pal Ronald Reagan, Buckley has lost his competitive urge. The last lap of the 20th century may provide a new liberal challenger, but until then we are left with a small irony. Reagan, the former actor, entered the White House at about the same time that Buckley, the political activist, began changing into an entertainer...