Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many men do you know who would allow the image of a 15-year-old boy to dictate how they're supposed to look in the '80s...
...market. Kuttner proposes no liberal agenda, perhaps leaving that duty to Sen. Paul Tsongas's forthcoming book. But as a document that explains why government began to fail in the '60s, and why the people rose to punish it in the '70s, Revolt is an invaluable resource for the '80s...
...Kuttner concludes with an almost mournful plea to learn from our mistakes; the problem is that so far only the Right has transformed the failures of the Great Society into an agenda for the '80s. Americans committed to social justice mow face the future leaderless, devoid of new ideas and without a working-class base of support. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a man conspicuous in his absense from Kuttner's book is fond of saying, "the flame may flicker, but the danger dream will never die." Yet the flame is in danger without the fuel of new ideas and vision...
Tomlin and Wagner have no such grand ideas. They aim only to poke fun at the American houseperson's conspicuous consumption - a bizarrely anachronistic target in the '80s, when every Jane Doe scrutinizes her biodegradable cereal box to make sure it has enough vitamins and minerals. So the film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this...
...prints that had been arriving in France in a steady trickle for the quarter of a century since Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. What these influences produced, in the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin and the various painters who were, at one moment or another during the late '80s, linked to their work (among them, Maurice Denis, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard, Paul Serusier and Toulouse-Lautrec) was a style known as cloisonism. The French cloison means "division" or "partition," and it was applied to a kind of enamelware whose patches of bright color were separated by fine metal lines...