Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to call Generation X a modern Decameron--an exchange of tales to pass the time, while avoiding the decay of the world outside. But Generation X could also be a Canterbury Tales for the 90's--pilgrims trading stories while en route to something better...
Architectural Decay and Industrial Debris: Reflections on a Painter's Landscape--a slide talk with Anne Seelbach. At 7:30 p.m. in the Colloquim Room at the Bunting Institute at 34 Concord...
...AMERICA'S CITIES cry for help, sinking in a whirlpool of corruption, economic decay and educational stagnation, the middle classes continue to row hard for the suburbs, ears plugged to the clamor, eyes fixed on what they leave behind...
Even if Yeltsin and Gorbachev learn to work well together, they confront enormous tasks. The problems that preceded the coup -- economic decline, government deadlock, systemic decay -- are still there. At the top of the agenda is the immediate need to purge the current leadership of coup plotters, accomplices and sympathizers. It was clear last week that the country has no patience for continuing any of these men in office, yet there is a need for expertise and experience for the rebuilding that must get under way. But it is all happening faster and more roughly than many can handle...
...mystery-by-installment plan can, however, record almost journalistically a sequence of social change. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo reflected, in their Martin Beck series, the decay of the socialist dream in Sweden; Joseph Hansen provided a time line on gay life in the U.S. in his Dave Brandstetter series. No current mystery writer has better exploited this potential -- or better served readers with riveting storytelling and acutely observed human nature -- than James McClure in his eight novels about two South African policemen. The cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced...