Word: aquarius
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agassiz theater production is a resounding yes. Granted, the events depicted in Gerome Ragni and James Rado's play are ancient history to us, but the same is true of Antigone and Hamlet (two plays to which Hair owes a debt). Galt MacDermot's score (including favorites like "Aquarius") was as fresh and lively as ever...
...money show: the Astute Investor, the Busy Investor, the Patient Investor, the Contrary Investor, the Cheap Investor and so on. Most of them are solo operations, and one editor describes them unabashedly as the "alternative press" of the era. The wished-for kinship is not with some Age of Aquarius tabloid, of course, but with pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton. The newsletter gurus see themselves as disabusers of Wall Street myth, as missionaries of economic truth. Since readers can lose big money if their guru is wrong, the work is fraught with the peril of being hanged, though...
...nation pulsed with music and proclamation, with rages and moral pretensions. "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius," sang the cast of Hair, which came to Broadway in April. Janis Joplin expressed one side of the year fairly well: ecstatic and self-destructive simultaneously, wailing to the edges of the universe, flirting with the abyss. Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970, memorably sang Me and Bobbie Magee, the 1969 Kris Kristofferson song that contained a perfect line of 1968 philosophy, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...
...appropriate in the context of the scenes for which they provide a backdrop. Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" plays during scenes of revolution on the Georgetown campus. "When I Was Young" by the Animals works well behind the opening montage of '60s news clips. Standards such as "Aquarius," "Get Together," "Time of the Season" and "Can't Find My Way Home" are other strong points of 1969's soundtrack...
...gloss being put on the Moscow summit is that it is an intimate human drama, an Aquarius-Pisces encounter. Skeptics rightly fret at the danger in personalizing relations between the two powers: personal rapport is not the same as shared national interests. Yet Reagan is far more comfortable addressing human issues than abstract interests, and Gorbachev is certainly willing to try to manipulate that inclination. When Gorbachev got the President alone in Reykjavik's cramped Hofdi House in October 1986, they spun off toward the stratosphere of abolishing nuclear weapons before crashing back to earth. When they wander off after...