Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hair, the 60s rock musical about a group of hippies who drop everything from acid to their clothing takes the stage at the Agassiz theater for a two week run. With upbeat music and dancing, the performance should be an energetic look at the era in which so many of us were born but have not experienced...
Kingston's prose imitates--almost mocks--an era and its writers, but she does not attempt to recreate their style. Hers is the San Francisco of the 1960s, city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier works, the Mexican-Americans of California fame, the mainstream Americans of boring jobs and boring attitudes, the blond-haired beauties and the bearded draft dodgers--all types pass through Kingston's city...
...facing a long sentence on cocaine-sale charges, Hoffman jumped bail. Eventually he settled in a small town in upstate New York, where he took the name Barry Freed and busied himself with environmental issues. When Hoffman came out of hiding in 1980, on the cusp of the Reagan era, he seemed a bit like Rip Van Winkle, waking up in a new world that was moving not forward but backward into the somnolent 1950s...
GHETTO. Joshua Sobol's Nazi-era tragicomedy, seen across the U.S. in an Israeli production, makes its English-language debut on Broadway, with the same vibrant staging...
...Bush Administration, in asking for safeguards in the deal, is not trying to crush Japan's aerospace ambitions or force Tokyo to buy wholly U.S.-made planes off the shelf. Rather the struggle over the FSX appears to mark the start of a new get-tough era in U.S. relations with its trading partners. Armed with the Super 301 weapon provided by Congress, the White House in coming months could bring actions against Japan if the U.S. determines that Tokyo has failed to open its markets for everything from weather satellites to financial services. Moreover, the Administration now considers...