Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Navy Secretary John Lehman disclosed last month that the Navy had evidence that during the 1970s and early '80s Rickover received gifts worth "tens of thousands" of dollars, not only from General Dynamics but also from General Electric, Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co., all big Navy contractors. Among the presents: a $695 pair of diamond earrings mounted on 18-karat gold and a $430 jade necklace. Rickover says those baubles went to his wife, but that he passed most of the other "trinkets"-gold pendants, desk sets, ship models-on to Congressmen and then wives...
...that manages to be much more effective and powerful than a 28-year-old musing on being and nothingness. The subway cars, the flickering overhead light, the crumbling walls and ceiling--they are all part of this, the post-industrial age. The set may be a product of the '80s, but it is as true to Beckett as he was to himself 30 years...
...with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto. But as befits a manchild of the soft-spoken '80s, there is an insinuating sweetness about the heart that is always visible on the sleeve of Murphy's habitual sweatshirt. It is discernible not only by adolescent females but by case-hardened critics as well...
...took 14 years to prepare. Not a minute was wasted. The French master's parabola is traced from early still lifes of glowing Oriental rooms and odalisques to the shimmering, heated imagery of dancers, to the paper cutouts and stained-glass windows executed when he was in his 80s. Pierre Schneider's text echoes Matisse's advice to his students: "Retain only what cannot be seen." What was invisible to the audience, the artist represented. What was unknown, his biographer-scholar has revealed...
This game show brings as out of the '20s and into the '70s. But wait--inside the silver casket is a picture of Ronald Reagan, and we are suddenly reminded of the '80s Rossman heaps anachronisms on top of anachronisms, from Portia's touch-once telephone to Jessica and Lorenzo's bout with marijuana, and the product gives the audience a queasy and disorienting trip through decades and centuries...