Word: 80s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...such sentiments and the attitudes of the current crop of leading artists, like Zhang Xiaogang, Zhu Wei and Fang Lijun, couldn't be starker. Mostly now in their 40s, many of the artists suffered through the tail end of the Cultural Revolution. The cultural flowering that followed in the '80s was another casualty of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Many artists left the country. Now back, they're thrilled at being rewarded instead of hounded for expressing their feelings in their work. Fundamental issues like politics, ideology and spirituality remain important themes. Images of Mao Zedong, the Red Guards...
...Hall & Oates—“Greatest Hits.” Man, did the 80s rule...
...sue” (“Rocky V”)— Rocky’s response? A punch to the face. 2. Rival Apollo Creed becomes Rocky’s homoerotic pal (“Rocky III”)—Clad in bold 80s colors and far-too-short shorts, the duo race down the beach and into the ocean, where they proceed to do one of those spinning slo-mo hugs. This somehow shows that Rocky has regained the “eye of the tiger.” 1. Soviet boxer Ivan Drago kills...
...song that can do that and still allow you to rock out is definitely worthy of becoming a holiday classic. Lead singer Brandon Flowers is in top form, maintaining the band’s characteristic ’80s rock feel, backgrounding the fact that this is a Christmas song. Until, that is, you see the video...
...something so deeply rooted in human culture is not easy to annihilate. The repressed just keeps on returning--in, for example, the rock 'n' roll "rebellion" of the '50s and '60s and what I call the "carnivalization" of sports events in the '80s and '90s, when fans began dressing in team colors and costumes, and performing dancelike activities like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence...