Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a painting was sold at auction in London for $39.9 million or, in real money, some 5.8 billion yen. This was the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The multimillion-dollar marvel is now a commonplace of the '80s: a Turner went for $10 million in 1984, a Mantegna for $10.4 million and a Van Gogh for $9.9 million in 1985, and a Rembrandt for $10.3 million and a Manet for $11 million in 1986. Nevertheless, this one brought in more than three times the previous record established in 1983 with the sale...
...gardens, horticulture died, as far as I'm concerned. Then the back-to- the-landers brought vegetable gardening back in the 1960s. It took the mystery out of it. Light. Heat. Sun. The right spot. All you need. People got involved. Houseplants took off in the '70s. In the '80s, the focus moved outdoors. We sell it as landscaping, an investment that grows...
...swiftness. One moment, the pageant of Reaganism was proceeding, with brilliant fireworks over the harbor. The next moment, the Iranian scandal burst up through the floorboards. Strange blackbirds of policy flapped out of the White House basement. The Reagan Administration, the phenomenon that had defined so much of the '80s, that had given the decade its agenda and style, seemed to collapse in a bizarre shambles...
...Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer went on witch- hunts for Bolsheviks. The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles. America closed down Ellis Island and slammed the door against new immigration. What followed in the '20s was the "era of good feeling," a period with some resemblance to Reagan's '80s...
Overnight, it seems. Back in the early '80s, the state had so much oil money that State Representative Hoyt ("Pappy") Moss proposed to bail out Chrysler, Cleveland and a couple of other basket cases in the Lower 48. A few years before that, the legislators, in a gesture of unprecedented largesse, did away with the state income tax. In its place, they substituted a state- sponsored giveaway. Each and every resident was paid an annual "dividend" of some $500 merely for living in the state. The big spenders in Juneau also voted to give residents 65 and older an additional...