Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...80s were a chilly time for people espousing her sort of message," Bok says. "But [Edelman] showed admirable qualities of perseverance, often working against the national grain to get people to take notice of this enormously important set of issues she has chosen to champion...
...fall of communism, everything goes and nothing matters, whereas in Central Europe nothing goes and everything matters. One remembers this when looking at the work of the Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, who lives and works in Warsaw but whose American reputation has been growing steadily since the early '80s. Her two current New York shows -- one at the Marlborough Galleries through June 5, the other, curated by the art critic Michael Brenson, at P.S. 1 in Long Island City through June 20 -- ought to be seen by anyone who cares about today's sculpture...
Thus both sides of the "culture wars" of the '80s and '90s took form in the pivotal year of '68. The key issues are different now -- abortion and gay rights, for example, as opposed to Vietnam and racism -- but the underlying themes still echo the clashes of '68: Diversity vs. conformity, tradition vs. iconoclasm, self-expression vs. deference to norms. "Question authority," in other words, vs. "Father knows best...
...Sachs, who went on to advise countries around the world on how to switch from controlled to free-market economies. "She had a certain extra dimension, a real analytical mind," he observes. "Her thesis concerned Japan's trade performance after each shock in oil prices during the '70s and '80s, and how the country paid for fuel by increasing exports. She devised computer work that was sophisticated, especially for an undergraduate...
...awaited execution in the mid-'80s, Bobby Shaw's condition deteriorated. He became withdrawn and disheveled -- and the prison system finally took notice. In September 1986 a new department of corrections report announced that Shaw had a "schizoid personality disorder." But it was all too late...