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They reserved greatest scorn for younger generations. "With the college-bred youth leading the retrogression," Howard Schiffer Gans complained, "we have largely lost our individualism, our courage, and our capacity for moral indignation...
...country singers is dominated by artists who have succeeded largely on their own terms, consolidating an eclectic mix of contemporary sounds with old-fashioned catches in the throat, tinkles of the mandolin, sugary sobs and vertiginous swoops of pedal steel guitar. This generation's performers are the first bred on both rock and country who are consciously choosing Nashville, as Vince Gill did when he turned down a chance to join the rock group Dire Straits in favor of continuing his country career...
...women starve themselves, have breast implants, apply acid to their face to peel off the wrinkles, and why fashion magazines came to favor photo spreads of women wearing dog collars and chains and penciled-on bruises. It is on issues of symbol and representation that Faludi and the newly bred backlash theorists have the most fun and start the liveliest arguments over who really represented the Image of Woman in the 1980s...
...just "one more illustration of the horrors of Black urban poverty," as so many white liberal columnist will undoubtedly term it over the course of the next few weeks (if they choose to write about it at all). Rather, it was an outrageous and tremendously upsetting event bred from a system of institutionalized and governmental imprisonment and oppression...
Underneath all this gunfire and poverty lies a sea of children, born and bred, or born and brought, to East New York. The cycle is obvious and it is apparent on the faces in the pictures. The young kids in East New York today will inherit about as much hope as their older sibling possess, and they in turn absorb the desperation and the pain of James Sinkler and Linda Moore...