Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since the widespread social protests of the '60s gave way to the economic shocks of the '70s and '80s, pollsters and academics have noted declining American confidence in the nation's institutions. In The Confidence Gap (Free Press; 434 pages; $19.95), Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider of the American Enterprise Institute attempt to discover how steep that decline has been and what caused...
...fashion of the '80s is not to wait past May to sniff that none of these goats is Secretariat. It is quite enough to be Sunny's Halo...
Aside from barreling the school to the front of the Ivy competition, the stunning increase also forced the Brown campus community to examine flattering label "model school of the '80s...
...just that which makes Out Out so disappointing. Of course the 80s are a chaotic stew of energy and images. But a ing the spirit of the 80s than Hair did to capturing the spirit of the "60s: This work tries to deal with all the many issues that confront this generation--too many for one play. There are too many hands, too many cooks hovering over this soup. The nightmare of potential nuclear bolocaust is more than any one person or any one theater collective can tackle, and it is dishonest to pretend otherwise. TheaterWork...
...that myth in one enormous carnival of dance, theater, performance/installation art and new wave music. Yet Out Out is not the definitive statement on life in the nuclear age, and only partially does it manage to capture, as design coordinator Craig Sonnenberg wanted it to, "the spirit of the 80s". Out Out is the result of a collaboration by a 10-member "design team" headed by Sonnenberg, and assisted by TheaterWorks artistic directors Vincent Murphy and Tim McDonough. Perhaps it is a myth in the theater circle that in the event of a collaboration, the design team sticks...