Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I made my announcement speech in September of last year, I outlined what I believe to be the four major issues we must solve in the '80s, and I stated my positions on these issues--education, tax reform, housing, and civil service...
...queries like "Is it true that [former president] Zachary Taylor liked to be spanked by older women?" (no) and "Wasn't George Washington once treated for an Oedipus complex?" (yes, but it was accidental), Instead, the revamped Almanac offers an hysterical social commentary on life in the '70s and '80s. In so doing, Baker proves without a doubt that he is back in the saddle...
...Seven Ravens (Morrow; $8.95), the principals seem as contemporary as animated cartoon characters. Lisbeth Zwerger's subdued palette and astronomical creatures owe much to Arthur Rackham, but her strange Black Forest birds and rabbits are her own and her heroine has the lineaments and verve of an '80s role model...
...elderly as Cyril Brickfield, 62, executive director of the American Association of Retired Persons, and Maggie Kuhn, 76, founder of the Gray Panthers, called the 60-page conference report "a liberal document." In fact, the conference did endorse, albeit loosely, nearly all of the "eight for the '80s" goals proposed by a consortium of 25 elderly groups. Among the aims: more access to full-time and part-time work; home delivery of services rather than use of nursing facilities; an eventual but undefined "national health care plan." On two pivotal issues, however, the conference adopted positions urged by Reagan...
...person came in saying he was John Lennon and wanted to find out what the '80s were all about," Phil Burke, an employee at Harvard Square Theater, said yesterday. "But we didn't believe him," he added. Burke said he did not know whether the questioner was from the Lampoon...