Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ELLEN SCHWAMM's How He Saved Her, the fictional autobiography of a New York socialite, may well interest fans of the 19th-century Gothic romance. Her Nora Ingarten is, enviably enough, the Gothic heroine of the '80s. Admittedly not young and violable. Nora is already married, the mother of two chic and witty Amherst-bound offspring. But her marriage to a conservative tax lawyer has stunted rather than matured her, and she has persisted as confused, dogged and sensitive as a teenage heroine. How He Saved Her tells the story of Nora's enlightenment through her elusive and brutal seducer...
...children's romp, before the scares of chocolate-covered razor blades. Long, long before that, it was a religious occasion for their pagan elders, and now it has been taken back by the grownups-masks, costumes, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and all. Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear. This year's celebration will be the most raucous ever, lasting four or five days in some places, a virtual Halloweek...
...should recognize their responsibility to pay back the Black community for their privileged position. Some Blacks at Harvard do agree with this, yet Silva confronts others with the attitude that they are at Harvard because they are the best and the brightest. The '60s activity is history now--the '80s are a period of individual achievement they may claim. Unhappily, this is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...hell of a percentage increase in these day-after-nuclear scripts," says Michael Fuchs, president of Home Box Office's entertainment group. Apocalypse has clearly become something more than the fate that looms just over the horizon line. It may be the growth industry of the ' 80s...
Winthrop House--now designated as the team of the '80s by House football enthusiasts and analysts--is expected to make the biggest splash out there this year. After all, it won the championship last season, and its current lineup is bolstered by two former varsity gridiron kings. But what if Winthrop doesn't (heaven forbid) take the title this time around? That improbable question can be answered by looking to the Year of the Point...