Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which amounted to just $7 billion in 1970, increased fivefold during the decade as the world developed a taste for American products. American farmland values zoomed as well. An average acre of Iowa land sold for $417 in 1970 but was worth $2,147 at the start of the '80s. Increasingly prosperous farmers borrowed heavily to buy additional acreage and new equipment. "In the '70s, you couldn't do anything wrong in agriculture," recalls Cliff Vrieze, 39, a hog farmer in Trimont, Minn. "You could do almost anything and make a profit...
THERE IS a tide in the affairs of books. At certain times, the popularity of a particular genre seems to be at its crest. Recent bestseller lists indicate that the 80s is the decade of the biography and the historical romance. They depict complete lives, some with real direction and purpose, perhaps things modern man may lack. The dreams, hopes, ambitions and achievements of the great men of a former are can offer inspiration and hope...
...invigorating roar of the crowd and the trappings of celebrity are hard enough to relinquish voluntarily; it is even more difficult to walk away from something one has spent a lifetime attaining. Retirement is particularly agonizing for singers. Pianists and conductors have been known to perform into their 80s or even their 90s, but opera stars know that biology is destiny. Some time in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears...
...young urban professionals are coming into their own. They are part of the famous baby-boom generation that is destined to be a cultural force at every stage of its life. The boomers gave the '60s much of its character, and now are doing the same thing in the '80s. In the meantime, of course, they have changed. Says Gordon Rayfield, 34, a New Yorker who is a foreign-affairs analyst for a multinational firm: "In the '60s, we felt like this wasn't our country. It was taken over by bad people. Now we realize that...
...through the time barrier to confront his own past and a new race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members of the original cast (Keir Dullea...