Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roth's books have sold well, but he has never really been controversial or had his apartment examined in gossip columns ("the smart East 80s ... very solid, no patterns"). Now that Alexander Portnoy has made him a celebrity, he is dodging fame with SalI ingeresque determination-which, of course, only draws more attention to him. He used to answer the phone, "Benito Cereno here."* Now he doesn't answer his phone at all, and he tends...
...life with his wife Jacqueline in a Left Bank town house, manages to arrange his work schedule so that they have lunch at home three times a week. They have three married daughters and five grandchildren. He has a dachshund named Jason, plays golf most Sunday mornings (in the 80s), and likes the movies enough to queue up with the crowds along the Champs Elysees to see the latest detective flicks or Chaplain classics. Couve is also a connoisseur of wine. His favorite: Chateau-Latour...
...concentrate on science fiction. But he has one unfulfilled goal: a flight of fact. Although he believes regularly scheduled trips to the moon will not begin until after the turn of the century, he hopes to be included on one of the early flights, "some time in the '80s...
With the new liberalities of the current cinema, such antique prejudices seem laughable-almost as laughable as the '60s movies will be to late-show fans of the '70s and '80s. Then as now, viewers equipped with 20/20 hindsight will perceive the depressed, desolated land that bled through the '30s films, the hunger for absolutes and the shrill patriotism that surrounded the war and cold war of the '40s. They will recognize the erosion of supposedly permanent mores and attitudes that characterized the late '50s and early '60s. They will survey the cliches...
Sevens from 100. Aside from the economic and social waste involved, Dr. Wright is concerned about what he considers unfair discrimination. Biological aging is far from uniform. Some older men remain capable into their 80s of original thinking and cogent decision making. On the other hand, some men as early as 40 show the rigidity of mind and unwillingness to accept new ideas commonly charged against the aged...