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DIED. R.C. GORMAN, 74, internationally renowned Navajo artist; of a blood infection and pneumonia; in Albuquerque, N.M. Derided by some as repetitive and uninspired, his paintings and sculptures, often of Native American women, were hugely popular in the 1970s and '80s, drawing such fans as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Andy Warhol and appearing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which put one of his works on the cover of a catalog for a 1973 exhibition...
...most chefs don't buy that. "There had to be so many inches between the tables to go a step up," says leading New York chef David Bouley, who apprenticed at Michelin-starred restaurants in France. "You had to have certain kinds of china, glassware, linens." In the '80s, in fact, Michelin sent an "inspector" to assess New York's restaurants. His verdicts were never released, but the fact that no guidebook came of the exercise suggests that back then, at least, New York establishments couldn't pass the Michelin sniff test...
...their old age is a son with the responsibility of taking care of them.” China’s adoption of the one-child policy in 1979 gave parents only one chance to bear that son. With the invention of ultrasound in the early ’80s, sex-selective abortions became possible for the first time, and many women pregnant with baby girls opted to abort them. Women who did not have access to abortions resorted to infanticide. This willingness to abort or kill a female, if necessary, prompted the gender gap to grow...
...most would argue, the novel) rage against the “ghastliness” of the era and its leadership. Never explicitly advancing a political or moral agenda in his fiction, Hollinghurst nonetheless has plenty to say about real-life politics then and now. The ’80s saw a “sexualized idolatry of Mrs. Thatcher,” and while Tony Blair’s victory in 1997 finally offered “relief from the Tories” by his liberal Labour party, Blair’s record has become only...
Meanwhile, authenticity-oozing and utterly non-threatening minorities bust off walls and crump-dance on street corners, all the while bobbing their heads to the hypnotic “Hung Up” melodies emanating from a massive ’80s boom box (far more “Say Anything” than “Do the Right Thing?...