Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tough opener" may be the understatement of the '80s. The Crimson had as much chance against Team USA as the Harvard baseball team did against Roger Clemens' fastball last spring training...
...only ones to have failed in their responsibility. Leaders of business, finance, academe and the news media knew intellectually that the Reagan Administration had replaced the Democrats' tax-and-spend with the hugely popular but unsound practice of spend-and-borrow, and that the nation's prosperity in the '80s was being stolen from its children and grandchildren...
There are a few living American artists whose latest show one would always feel eager to see. Susan Rothenberg is high on the list. At 42 she has survived the cultural gorge-and-puke of the early '80s, the manic starmaking and the pressure on immature talent -- all due, presumably, to wither in the hangover from the bull market. Rothenberg's anxious but unhurried cast of mind was somehow fortified in the pressure cooker. Her current show at New York City's Sperone Westwater gallery (through Nov. 14) is in some respects her best...
Since the early '80s, Rothenberg has been grappling with two problems: how to put her fragments together, and how to do it in terms of color. She has never been a "natural" colorist (black, white, duns and a range of silvery grays, punctuated with the occasional splotch of crimson or ultramarine blue, came easiest to this tonal painter), and quite often her efforts to introject color into her work looked like mere tints imposed on a monochrome structure...
...should not underestimate this image advantage, especially after a kickoff debate in which George Bush finally proved he was indeed up for the '80s. The Vice President displayed a spark and a spunk that many doubted he possessed. After Pete du Pont questioned Bush's principles, Bush counterpoked with a derisiveness that extended to his rival's pet issue and little-used first name. "Pierre, let me help you on some of this," he said. "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system." Moments later, Bush was holding his own in a finger...