Word: 80s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...80s if you asked me if I would have ran for mayor I would have said, and did tell people, ‘No,’” Purcell says, leaning on the table as he had done earlier while discussing the beginning of his interest in child welfare...
...performer and the performer who brings his gifts to the mainstream. His early-70s image as the acoustic guitar’s fresh young face gave way to a late-70s foray into that of the “singer-songwriter,” though to little success. The 80s brought a more experimental flavor to Kottke’s music, as he incorporated an even wider variety of sounds into his acoustic tableau. In the early 1980s, after sustaining chronic injuries to his hands due to an aggressive playing style and taking a brief hiatus, Kottke reinvented his technique...
...Boston’s support for documentary and independent filmmaking has occasionally found its influence filtered into the mainstream. Independent filmmaker Jan Egleson shot films in Cambridge during the late 70s and early 80s, and his working-class dramas inspired other local filmmakers, such as Christine Dall and Randall Conrad—a husband-wife duo whose 1981 film “The Dozens” won an award at the U.S. Film and Video Festival, the Sundance Film Festival’s predecessor. Egleson was also an early admirer of Ben Affleck, casting the actor in his 1981 film...
...Like Obama, Hector never really knew his father, a Cuban-born radiologist who died when Hector was a toddler. Raised by his mother, a nurse, Hector says he also feels close to his grandmother, who is in her 80s and still lives in Havana. But the tighter Cuba travel restrictions that President Bush imposed in 2004 means Hector can't visit his abuela as much as he used to - and he's voting for Obama in part because the Illinois Senator has promised to revoke the travel rules. "I've been thinking about that a lot since I heard Obama...
...With the race as tight as it is, Hagan's chances in the once reliably red state may boil down to voter education thanks to a quirk of state political history. In the '80s, the Democratic controlled legislature got tired of losing down ballot races thanks to weak presidential candidates and separated the ballots. On this year's ballot, therefore, voters have to vote twice-once for president and once for the Democrats from the state - rather than being able to make one single choice for the entire slate of Democratic candidates...