Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maggie and Ira Moran, the middle-aged couple of Breathing Lessons, are not out to impress us with special interests or personalities. The pair represents that vast majority of Americans who live lives without life-styles. Both characters came of age during the postwar conservatism of the 1950s. After 20 years of depression and war, a future that promised a secure job, a steady mate and two children seemed more than enough. There were, of course, degrees of modest expectations. Maggie recalls the remarks of her childhood friend Serena, just before Serena married a boy named Max: "It's just...
Maggie's efforts to reunite Fiona with her son Jesse, a member of a local roadhouse rock band, are futile. The young adults still seem to be attracted to each other, but they are too touchy and impatient. Maggie finds symptoms of the age by comparing today's music with the songs of her generation: "It used to be 'Love Me Forever' and now it's 'Help Me Make It Through the Night...
...cutting his losses not because he is a sudden convert to friendship and harmony and coexistence, not because he has lost the nationalist or ideological faith that underlies Soviet realpolitik, but because he knows that what the times demand is discrimination. And in an age of triage, that means concentrating on supreme geopolitical objectives and making sacrifices at the periphery...
...medical crisis comes of legal age as the growing number of people tarnished by the AIDS antibody test seek fair treatment...
...officially referred to as the "stagnation period," but it might just as well be called the Bronze Age. During his 18 years in power, Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev became infamous for indiscriminately heaping medals, ribbons and other decorations on himself and party cronies. Even though he played only a minor role in World War II, Brezhnev sported four shiny stars, each honoring him as a Hero of the Soviet Union...