Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baker succeeds -- if, with American primacy intact, he can manage the transition to a new era -- he may be ready for the next step. "He's got the ace of diamonds of jobs now," says Preston Moore, a Baker cousin and close friend. "The ace of spades is still out there to get. One thing's for certain: Jimmy Baker won't voluntarily go back to drafting wills if he's still got his wits about...
WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression era gave American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting legacy. Through April...
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here...
...object of all these travels was to arrange a climactic summit between Deng and Gorbachev in Beijing this spring, perhaps in May. The easing of tensions is certain to produce diplomatic fallout of global importance. It could lead to a new era of stability in Asia, where the 4,500-mile Chinese- Soviet border sometimes threatened to become the fuse for war, perhaps even nuclear conflict. The U.S. might be losing its "China card," but the world will gain a new style of superpower diplomacy: no more will China be the stick for the U.S. to beat the Soviets...
...Deng-Gorbachev summit will have a daunting list of issues to resolve before any grand hopes for an era of good feeling in the Far East are realized. Working out details of a new government order in Kampuchea will be difficult enough. Larger dreams of transforming Indochina from "a battlefield to a marketplace" or reconciling North and South Korea lie well in the future. But the 1.4 billion people of the Soviet Union and China have good cause for some quiet celebration. At the very least, they can mark the beginning of the end of a dark era...