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...case you haven’t noticed, the ’80s are back...
...80s were a time when everyone from the President to pop culture did their best to lay things out in black and white; it was the Cold War and the Russians were the bad guys. After a decade of ’90s action films that seemed to stick to a lone-warrior-versus-the-corrupt-establishment theme, Team America: World Police is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what...
...Twiggy's doe eyes of the '60s haven't been left behind: false eyelashes, currently offered by cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora, are back. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls and drag queens, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years," says Chris Salgardo, general manager of Shu Uemura...
...certainly wasn't alone in this. Many of my contemporaries at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in the '70s and '80s can tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...
...other museums. And what MOMA minimizes must struggle a bit to be taken seriously. The old Modern was never particularly interested in postwar British art. Will the new place give more space to otherwise well-established British painters like Lucian Freud and R.B. Kitaj? As for the Big '80s, the Modern held many of that decade's art stars at arm's length. Julian Schnabel and Jeff Koons, Keith Haring and David Salle--will they make it through the door this time...