Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides the apparent mental hazards, Woods says performing can be risky as a career because of the inherent uncertainty. In light of Rick Berlin's long-standing difficulties in acquiring a major-label recording contract, Woods says she would advise prospective musicians, "Get some training, and get a regular job. You don't want to do this. I would wish this on somebody I don't like...
...casualty of museum gridlock. The Guggenheim has neatly timed it to clash with not one but two other Braque exhibitions, in Japan and Norway, so that half the paintings one would most want to see were unobtainable. The New York show samples all the stages of a long career, but it is complete only in a chronological sense. It does contain some of Braque's masterpieces, but it gives you just the scaffolding of the oeuvre, not its full body. Given the ever mounting difficulty of borrowing major paintings and the spiraling expense of insuring them, the complete Braque retrospective...
...such moments, all these people sound suspiciously like DeLillo, 51, whose career has been nourished by the public disillusionment and skepticism that began to spread after the nightmare of 1963. His eight previous novels, beginning with Americana (1971), hover devotedly over repeated themes: events are never what they seem; there may be no such thing as randomness; secrets and mysteries control our lives...
...going after a "job he can't get appointed to"; Ted Kennedy cataloging the sins of the Reagan years; Jackson's resounding evocation of the personal and historical rationale for his quest. On a closing night that was supposed to be anticlimactic, the nominee delivered the speech of his career. With his artful orchestration of people and events, Dukakis emerged looking like the sort of nominee the Democrats haven't seen in a long time: a strong leader...
...lets you change the channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent than infantile, spinning fables in which youth is its own reward. The summer hit Big teaches that a 13-year-old boy can find love with the proper career woman and succeed in business without really trying. Who'd ever care to be a grownup when childhood is portrayed as so pure, so powerful, so enlightenedly selfish...