Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing pat-a-cake when changing diapers. "Infants are going to exercise on their own unless you keep them in a closet," he notes. Older tots get ample exercise by fooling around in the backyard or climbing trees. Organized activities, child experts agree, should wait until about the age of six. "Our society is constantly pushing children to do things earlier and not letting them go at their own pace," cautions Marilyn Smith, executive director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. "Parents are capable of applying phenomenal pressure on their kids without realizing...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art last week got its new season off to a magnificent start with the doctrinaire mystic of the Spanish Baroque, Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664). After Velasquez, El Greco and Ribera, Zurbaran was the best painter the so-called Golden Age of Spanish painting produced, but his work has never been seen in depth in America. Now, in one of those big transatlantic double acts the Met does so well, in cahoots with the Musee du Louvre in Paris, we have a show of 71 paintings organized by Jeannine Baticle of the Louvre. From this panoramic exposure...
Will those sad scenes of 1929, the stuff of flickering newsreels, replay themselves in 1989? Could it possibly happen again in this day and age? Almost no one seemed to think so only a few years ago, when the initial comparisons between the go-go decades of the 1920s and 1980s tended to downplay the possibility that the "Roaring Eighties" might lead to disaster. But now the confidence is not quite so strong. Some economists see a frightening number of current parallels with the 1920s. Moreover, those similarities are compounded by unprecedented new debt burdens and serious questions about...
...remote control is the unifying image in Amazon Women, an anthology of satirical sketches about our age of Television and the Short Attention Span. In an early sketch, Lou Jacobi plays a man who accidentally aims his remote control at himself and winds up on whatever program happens to be on his set. For the rest of the movie, an instant of television static, as if someone were changing channels, appears between each sketch...
...WORST movie of all is the title piece, "Amazon Women on the Moon," a B-grade 1950s sci-fi disaster, whose plot can be deduced from its title. The film's accurate stone-age special effects (rockets hanging from wires, etc.) and sound problems are surpassed in ludicrousness only by the film's overt jingoism, sexism, materialism and xenophobia...