Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been through a lot, and so has Young. The graying, semi-reclusive singer-songwriter was a member of the countrified '60s rock group Buffalo Springfield; one-fourth of the vocal quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; an anti-Nixon protester in the '70s; a sometime Reagan sympathizer in the '80s. Now in the '90s Young is a father figure for a new generation of alternative rockers. He turns the ignition key. The engine roars, tires spin and the Northern California roadhouse where his car was parked quickly fades in the rearview mirror. "Age," says the 49-year-old rocker, "makes...
Young revels in affable irascibility. He gives few interviews and says he won't talk to Rolling Stone anymore because of its perfumed ads: "I don't like the way the magazine smells." He makes no apologies for comments he made in the '80s expressing support for President Reagan's arms buildup: "I say what I believe in at the time. It may not be the same in four years." Now he's an advocate of Pearl Jam's effort to boycott Ticketmaster, the ticket-distribution service, in protest against its high prices. "Even if Pearl Jam fails, it doesn...
...across the past five decades, the Mistake by the Lake was host to geriatric front-office people, eccentric players and the entire entomological kingdom--one pitcher swallowed a moth while delivering the ball to the plate. Indians pitcher Bud Black, who made a brief sojourn in Cleveland in the '80s, says, "At the old ball park, it was always overcast, even on a sunny...
...well represented here. The postwar years released a wave of damaged-figure sculpture, none of it quite up to Giacometti's level. But metaphors of violence enabled certain painters of the figure to do some remarkable work, whose results would continue to be recycled by others into the '80s. There was practically nothing in '80s neo-Expressionism that approached the tumultuous energy of Karel Appel, whose two huge pictures, Man, 1953, and Portrait of Michel Tapia, 1956, all but stop this show...
...many cases the new "diggerati" do not really want to garden; they just want to have a garden, which means they're more willing to spend money than time outdoors. This represents a departure from the renaissance that the hobby enjoyed in the '80s, when all kinds of people discovered the raw joy of eating tomatoes that they first met as seeds and spending long afternoons primping their hedges. Where once Americans took the products of their gardens to the market, now they are bringing the market to their gardens. In all, Americans spent nearly $26 billion last year alone...