Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of the '80s, Americans may be on the point of another departure. The '80s may witness, for example, a long-overdue transition from an emphasis on feeling-"If it feels good, do it!"-to a keener focus on thought; feelings, at least the transcendent obliterations accomplished with drugs or extravagant sexual experiments, do not solve problems. Nor do the lesser sybaritisms of a hot-tub culture that in the '60s and '70s elaborated the idea of consumer comfort into a supine and giggling version of decadence...
...past 15 years were centrifugal; no moral center of gravity exerted a restraining force, so that almost any social behavior short of a display of necrophilia in the public parks could lay claim to legitimacy. In the '80s, the trend should be more centripetal: away from the purely individual, toward the community...
Bevan zealously believes a democratic form of radical Marxism is possible in Britain. The '80s, he thinks, will be the "decade of the Big Option," meaning that Britons will have to decide "between Thatcherism and the radical socialist alternative." Indeed, if the Andy Bevans get their way, Britain's polarization may be just beginning...
...finest French silk, spun by the larvae only the most aristocratic of silkworms, could speak, it would sound like Lauren Bacall. Affixed to a body that, in the '70s and '80s, has become the grist for more than a few older woman fantasies, that voice could fill a theater with a dramatic reading of the Globe classifieds. And that, alas, seems to be the theory behind Woman of the Year...
...fight to compromise, the same pattern as hundreds of movies of the era. Script-writer Peter Stone (who worked from a screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) might have attempted to elevate the drama from the cliched formula to examine the two-career relationship in the '80s. Stone, however, stuck with the original material, and the show labors with a hackneyed script, enlivened by some snappy repartee, but devoid of anything more than situation comedy level significance...