Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked like a "bimbo." In September, after Taylor complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she was fired. Though told that the dismissal reflected her poor job performance, she insists it was discrimination: "This is something that should not happen to anybody in this day and age...
...gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When neoexpressionism arrived in the early '80s, it was as though an army of Bronze Age hectors had assembled, chanting hoarsely of sex, anxiety, death and egotism, leaving long tracks of slimy paint and broken crockery behind them in their progress toward the art centers of the world. The dull percussion of beaten chests went on for around five years. Then a dying fall. And who lasted...
Relaxing at his elegant mountainside log house at Montreat, N.C., Graham recalled his ten-day Soviet marathon with wonderment: "You couldn't believe that human beings could live through it at any age." How long will this keep up? In 1989 there will be a London mission, linked by satellite to hundreds of sites in Britain and Africa. Graham is mulling bids from Hong Kong for 1990, and after that Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Kinshasa. His doctor hopes he can persist till age 75, but Graham wonders. "To try to hold the attention of a crowd of ten, twenty, thirty...
Kingman Brewster Jr., a distinguished former Yale University president and ambassador to Great Britain, died Tuesday of a brain hemorrhage at the age...
...worry now is that the negative, strident presidential politics of this age, which never let up because of the permanent industry of polling, consulting and campaign handling, will carry over into the Oval Office. The winner, intensely engrossed for so long in confrontational tactics to gain his prize, knows little else. Jimmy Carter, the avenging angel of the politics of "goodness," was so taken with his campaign achievement, narrow though it was, that he tried it with arms control, springing a plan for huge cuts on the Soviets. He offended the Kremlin with his arrogance and lost precious years...