Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longest, most harrowing rape scenes in Hollywood history, in which Sarah is spread-eagled on a Slam Dunk pinball machine and assaulted by three men. What happens throughout this good, fair film is the raising of many important questions about forcible sex. In the feminist age, can a woman display her sensuality as freely, even ( carelessly, as she does her intellect and ambition? If she does so, is she responsible for the prefeminist urges she triggers in men? Or is she just getting what she asked for, in a body language as old as the species? Can every...
Only Ronald Reagan among today's political powers could be so corny and survive, and be honored for the bathos. He is the architect of this age, not only of the bands and the movie blarney and the netted balloons that cascade over the gap-jawed audiences, but also of low inflation and entrepreneurship and peace and the biblical family virtues. What a performer...
...Masters to Jack Nicklaus because of a wild 4-iron on the very last hole. Despite Olympian skills and what Nicklaus calls "virtually unlimited potential," Greg Norman has only one major-tournament victory under his belt; the Golden Bear, Nicklaus, has tucked away a record 18. Norman at age 33 is golf...
Reunions are not easy, particularly the first ones. You have to be a certain age to recognize that meeting someone again whom you once knew is a reunion. Suddenly it takes on a certain importance, encountering you as something significant, a means of orienting yourself. This was my first bout with nostalgia, meeting a friend from days gone...
...nations of equal size...[George Bush's ] nation is white, Protestant, breathes clean air and advances towards middle-age. [Michael S. Dukakis'] is everything else...