Word: 80s
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...Denmark, formally joined in 1973. The expansion of a formerly tightly knit group offered enlarged economic possibilities, but also hampered cohesion. The original spirit of joint sacrifice splintered in frequent acrimony, especially after the two oil-price shocks of the decade weakened West European economies. By the early '80s, the once solid NATO consensus on defense also came under strain as a result of the drawn-out missile-deployment drama...
...local Socialist journal,the Soapbox; in the '40s, he was on the fringes of theleftish Partisan Review crowd. Two decades later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition as a syllabus of dead white males. But he actually belonged to no faction, identified with no cause. Like Ijah Brodsky...
...needs to worry about when you’ve got the style of a black, male, comic-book-fed Pauline Kael with a penchant for bad ’80s music videos, and a better wardrobe than the love-child of Dorian Grey and Lester Bowie...
McConaughey, doing his best McGuyver-meets-Indiana Jones (minus the ’80s pseudo-mullet, and the cool hat, respectively) grins and punches his way through the movie, relishing his role but not really saying a whole lot. For an alleged real-life Hollywood couple, McConaughey and Cruz have an astounding lack of on-screen chemistry...
...referring to the Mitchell brothers, one of whom killed the other in 1991, he could have meant the whole porno chic scene. Professional actors, even of marginal competence, gave way to born-and-bred porn stars like John Holmes in the 70s and Traci Lords in the 80s. "The turning point," says porn director Ed Deroo, "came in 1982, when it finally went all video. I missed film tremendously. Film had soul; video had nothing. Video's just a way of making money. It flows like water, but film had a texture, a feeling, something you could grab onto...