Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piquant and over the top, it was sui generis, its own highly peculiar self. Vegas in none of its various phases (ersatz Old West outpost in the 1930s and '40s, gangsters-meet- Hollywood high-life oasis in the '50s and '60s, uncool polyester dump in the '70s and early '80s) was really an accurate prism through which to regard the nation as a whole...
...through the '80s and '90s, the Princeton men's basketball team played the best hoops in the Ivy League, getting national attention for its near-upsets of Georgetown and Arkansas in the NCAA tournament and cracking the Associated Press Top 25 rankings for three weeks in 1990 before falling on harder times...
Tonight, though, Davis is selling forgiveness, so anyone hoping for three hours of Mommy bashing will be disappointed. There are some jabs, yes ("The Reagans parented America in the '80s. I was on one therapist's couch, and the country was on the other"), but Davis is here to help her audience let go of their anger. "You want someone to be more loving, you be more loving," she says. "You want someone to be more forgiving, you be more forgiving." To illustrate this point in a way everyone can relate to, Davis refers to her experience as the daughter...
Allen's group, founded in the early '80s, culls data from 30 federal agencies, 44 state-level missing-children clearinghouses and more than 60 private organizations. When a minor is confirmed missing, NCMEC transmits a photo and a biography to 17,000 law-enforcement groups. "The reality is that most missing kids are going to be recovered," says Allen...
Since the late '80s, Freud's work has become more audacious in its ability to deal with extremes of physical presence without sliding into caricature. In part this is due to his finding a new model in the form of Leigh Bowery, a huge, soft, hairless, child-faced, pierced-cheeked performance artist who might, in earlier days, have modeled Bacchuses for Rubens. Freud's paintings of this man-mountain are done in a spirit not far from amazement: his + excitement in traversing Bowery's back in Naked Man, Back View, 1991-92, is so palpable that you'd think...