Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels today's students are "serious," but in a different way than the career-minded students of the late '70s and early '80s...
...high you get on him depends on your cultural expectations. Polke has influenced a slew of younger American painters, and been hailed as the man who set painting in the '80s free--as if it had been languishing in bondage before!--by reviving, once more, the spirit of Dada that breathed through such movements as the Fluxus group in the '60s. He's the arch-trickster, mocking all art styles, sending up the dreaded Canon. (The fact that no work of art by a famous artist these days can safely be considered really and truly outside the Canon seems...
...sticks. "Did you set this up?" he asked incredulously. "Did you just put this here?" Seeing his reaction to mildly high-carb and high-fat foods, I circumvented Barbara's Drawer and took him to Ray's Closet of Low-Fat Snacks. He was not impressed. "In the late '80s, the dairy industry and the packaged-goods industry created this low-fat and no-fat bulls___," he said slowly and quietly, as if we were on The X-Files. "Nothing has caused obesity more." A friend of mine in the office started calling him "The Snackalator...
...done this study in the 1950s, '60s or '70s, no one would have been surprised," Freeman said. "But in the '80s, we had economic expansion, [yet] it seemed to leave behind the less educated people...
Remember those state-of-the-art Stinger missiles Ronald Reagan sent to the Afghan rebels back in the '80s? India certainly does, because one of them is reported to have taken down an Indian Air Force helicopter Friday in a battle against insurgents in Kashmir. "The Stinger is perhaps the surest sign that the infiltrators have an Afghan mujahedeen connection," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. But the guerrillas that occupied Indian military positions atop 17,000-feet-high mountain peaks are certainly no weekend warriors, leading to the accusations by India that Pakistan is behind the whole thing...