Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with cultural conservatives on abortion and turned his nominating convention over to their spokesmen. Evangelical Protestants stuck with him on Election Day, but hardly anyone else did. Americans had finally, as Voltaire might have put it, crushed the infamy. The political theologians and theological politicians of the late unlamented '80s were no more. We were all philosophes...
...leveler. Time and again, Shilts documents two facts: homosexuals become less unbecoming in time of war when every able body is needed; and harassment, intimidation and administrative discharges for gays and lesbians increase when the shooting stops. That employment practice was especially evident from the late '70s through the '80s, when the draft was replaced by volunteerism. On the eve of the Reagan Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Graham Claytor Jr., once law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, laid the groundwork for the Pentagon's current antigay policy. The essence contained in a Joint Chiefs of Staff statement...
Sentencing consultants are poised to be the quintessential post-'80s growth industry. Paul Bilzerian, nabbed for securities fraud and tax evasion, hired one to help him reduce a four-year prison sentence by performing community service at a boys' club. A consultant was instrumental in advising Miami moneyman and convicted tax cheat Victor Posner on his offer to establish shelters for the homeless in lieu of prison time. Onetime Wall Street legal eagle and insider trader Martin Siegel asked for and received the chore of running a children's computer camp. Securities fraudster Michael Milken is awaiting court approval...
...moment it seemed like the '80s again in the art market: while a dozen works by Andy Warhol failed to find any buyers at all during the spring auctions in New York, a still life by the French post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne sold for $28.6 million...
...conventional wisdom had been that black self-hatred was a by-product of discrimination that would wither away as society became more tolerant. Despite the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the black-is-beautiful movement of the '70s, the proliferation of black characters on television shows during the '80s and the renascent black nationalist movement of the '90s, the prowhite message has not lost its power. In 1985 psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson updated the Clarks' experiment using black and white Cabbage Patch dolls and got a virtually identical result: 65% of the black children preferred white dolls. "Black...