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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people who run the Brooklyn Museum have a new retrospective of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and they are doing their best right now to summon the spirit of the '80s. Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27, is the graffiti artist who personified certain dimensions of that decade as completely as his onetime girlfriend Madonna. So on a recent Saturday afternoon, a large area on the museum's fifth floor was given over to break dancers busting out moves. In a corner, a DJ fiddled with his turntable while a crowd of kids watched. A couple of guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does '80s Art Look Now? | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...turquoise earrings that peek through her long hair. His shaggy hair and flowing beard are tinged with gray. He has tucked the curls partly under a knit cap, giving him the appearance of a trendy mad fisherman. His corduroy pants, tapering to his ankles, look either vintage '80s or just unfashionable--it's hard to tell. His sweatshirt sleeves are pulled up to his elbows to show off the intricate tattoo that covers his right forearm, a mix of Pueblo tribal bands embellished with dots and a central star motif that he designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Couple Gets Even | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...Four, Stone will lead the Crimson into Durham, N.H. for a national semifinal date with St. Lawrence tonight. Durham is home to the University of New Hampshire, where Stone was a two-sport star and captain of both the hockey and lacrosse teams in the late ’80s...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone Returns Home to Alma Mater UNH With Championship Aspirations | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

Connors, a photographer since his days serving as a British soldier in Northern Ireland in the early 80s, opened the presentation yesterday by challenging the term “insurgency,” which members of the media frequently apply to those in Iraq fighting against...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Photojournalists Discuss Iraqi Resistance | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

...80s, on a trip of American historians to Moscow, May said he witnessed firsthand Kennan’s diplomatic and scholarly expertise in arranging a collaboration with Soviet historians...

Author: By David F. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U.S. Diplomat George Kennan Dies | 3/22/2005 | See Source »

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