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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling too, in this moment of generational change, that while the East looks to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Egon Krenz, America reflects with longing back to the late John F. Kennedy, whose voice still rings resonantly from some younger, self-idealized national age, for answers. It would seem that the times are even ready for change in our own country...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Reflections on the Euphoria | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Laughing.)) I am already of such an age and position that knowing my duties -- any duties -- I try to carry them out. That is what I enjoy. It was time for me to leave active military service. The military should have an age limit, and, understanding that very well, I gave up my post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Sergei Akhromeyev: A Soldier Talks Peace Marshal | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...unnamed narrator of Mario Vargas Llosa's ninth novel has practically everything in common with his creator: age (early 50s), nationality (Peruvian), occupation (writer). Similarly, the two share a common cosmopolitanism, having spent large swatches of their adult lives in Europe. An autobiographical strain has often appeared in Vargas Llosa's fiction, perhaps most notably and entertainingly in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982). The Storyteller captures the author -- and his surrogate -- in a subdued and ruminative mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back In Time | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the eminent British painter's distorted, isolated, sometimes silently screaming figures. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...male buddies, poised at the uneasy boundary between youth and middle age, sprawl in an overdecorated apartment and dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique and emotion and, more deeply, for enduring a sad life and lonely death. Other artists, they say, impersonate the passion and hysterics of opera; she lived them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Downbeat Duo | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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