Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late of the cold war ending and the arms race receding, the whole geopolitical world shifting on its very foundations, that we have had little time to notice how quickly the battle of the sexes has been heating up. These, in fact, are hard times for lovers; in the age of AIDS and the palimony suit, an affair of the heart seems less a matter of chemistry than of medicine and law and politics. The pattern now, it appears, is boy meets girl (or sometimes boy), quizzes on sexual history, comes clean with an update on his own antisocial diseases...
...playing mixed doubles with their interchangeable girlfriends would not seem strange to the kids in Bret Easton Ellis novels, who fall into bed with anyone at all, scarcely stopping to ascertain identity, or even sex. Titania's sudden passion for ass-headed Bottom seems almost natural in the age of Ecstasy, when someone who takes a tab of MDMA is liable to open her heart to the first person she sees. And Pyramus and Thisbe, wooing each other through a chink in a wall, might almost be model paramours -- paragons, in fact -- for the "safe sex" generation...
...Mikado with a character vrooming around on a motorcycle, and he set Handel's Orlando at the Kennedy Space Center. But a question remains: Do the elegant and aristocratic operas of Mozart really need to be jazzed up, gagged up, camped up and wrestled into the postmodern age...
...Soviet account in this age is a contradiction of almost everything practiced by the eight Presidents who preceded Bush over the past 43 years. Ronald Reagan, with a certain grim humor, could tell how he had written notes to three Soviet leaders in a row; before the letters reached them, "they all died." Bush not only wants Gorbachev to stay healthy, he may literally have offered up an Episcopal prayer or two for his success. Further, Bush has put his note writing to Gorbachev on a routine basis instead of limiting it to moments of crisis. The letters contain subtle...
Catching trout comes quicker now; on a good day perhaps six, even ten, get landed. You adopt rituals, preferring certain flies that bring you luck and that your friends use successfully. Gear gets stowed in familiar pockets as your fishing vest softens and fades with age. It is a delicate time, for as the addiction grows, the fish begin to invade your thoughts and dreams. At unpredictable moments the fisherman's mind fills with images of wide water, where brown trout hit large dry flies and pull long and hard...