Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lighting by Massood Farivar and Blake Lawit, props handled by Elye Alexander and the soundtrack by Jon Goldberg set the stage quite well and help to animate what little action happens on stage. However, as the 80s illustrated, accessories can only do so much...
...take dictation from dealers and collectors, so that its Biennials tended passively to reflect the fashions of the art market without showing more than an occasional glimmer of independent judgment. The 1993 version is different and scaled to a chastened art world. The sour taste of the collapsed '80s star system has galvanized the "new" Whitney, under its new director David A. Ross, into a veritable transport of social concern. This Biennial, assembled by a team of curators under the supervision of Elisabeth Sussman, is not a survey but a theme show. A saturnalia of political correctness, a long-winded...
...started thinking about filming Barbarians, whose rights had been optioned to veteran producer Ray Stark (The Way We Were) for $700,000, evil junk-bond genius Michael Milken was well on his way to jail, the takeover era was over, and the public backlash against the excesses of the '80s had started in a big way. Moreover, the catastrophic flop of Brian De Palma's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990 had cooled Hollywood on the idea of making movies set in Manhattan's financial district. Columbia began to shy away from a project that...
...grew up in Boston. But unlike Trey, I wanted to play for the Celtics. I watched all three of the Celtics' '80s championships. I still have every Sports Illustrated with Larry Bird on the cover. But when I got cut from my high school basketball team, I came to realize that donning Celtic Green was dream that would never be fulfilled...
...International terrorism in the '80s was fundamentally fueled by the cold war," says Phillips, "and you can almost date the diminution of that terrorism with Gorbachev's ascension to power." But the end of communism has $ helped ignite the fires of nationalism in regions like the Balkans, emboldening other fanatical groups to sow the kind of trouble once created by Soviet and East bloc terrorists...