Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abiding racism of our society kept middle class Blacks from following whites into the great wide open. Realtors' discriminatory practices and a total absence of enforcement of federal Equal Housing laws signed, sealed and delivered urban Blacks and other people of color to ghettoization. It wasn't until the '80s that Black real estate dollars became irresistible and anything like suburbanization for the Black middle class could occur...
Limbaugh picks his spots. He praises Ronald Reagan ("Ronaldus Magnus") for everything he likes about the '80s and blames the Democratic Congress for everything he hates. Snail darters get more play on his show than the recession. The chief miscreants in the B.C.C.I. scandal are not the Justice Department honchos who quashed any investigation for two years but Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Clark Clifford. Big Government is bad, except when it provides plenty of guns and bombs; big corporations are good, except when they knuckle under to liberal consumer groups. "You simply cannot have the public at large telling...
...roaring '80s, Carolyn Roehm became the archetype of what Tom Wolfe called the social X ray: a super-thin, high-profile fashion designer who consorted with the ultra-rich and married multimillionaire leveraged-buyout- king Henry Kravis. With Kravis' backing, she launched her own couture in 1985 and specialized in luxe items like ball gowns that cost as much as $6,000 each...
...Harkin's political program and persona, it is combat. The Iowa Democrat proudly describes the strategy that won him five terms in the House and two in the Senate: "Always attack, never defend." He believes that a pugnacity gap kept Democrats out of the White House through the '80s. Now, as he runs for President, he proposes to fill that gap by waging class warfare against George Bush and guerrilla operations against Democrats he considers timid. "The only thing Americans like less than a dirty fighter," he says, "is someone who won't fight back...
Harkin's powerful message--that the Republican leadership of the '80s has indulged the rich while wrecking the lives of common Americans--will appeal to labor groups and minorities, groups who have long suffered at the hands of the GOP. But his real target is middle-class America. If Harkin can continue to dazzle crowds with his fiery irreverence and populism, his explosive rhetoric ("The issue is not jobs. Hell, the slaves had jobs.") should hit home with a lot of Americans who have endured a decade of Reaganomics...