Word: erasable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced...
Any initiative that reduces global tensions deserves a cheer or two. If warmer relations between Beijing and Moscow lead to reduced military competition, to political liberalization and to economic reforms that integrate both nations into the global marketplace, make that three cheers. Indeed, given the domestic changes launched in 1979...
Smolin, 27, graduated from Fairfax High himself in 1978. But his classroom reflects a taste for the cultural artifacts of earlier eras. Jimi Hendrix posters keep company with theater reviews from West Side Story. His unusual methods -- using song lyrics to teach literary themes, for instance -- are popular with students...
The elections of 1960 and 1988 are brackets enclosing a period of astonishing transformation -- change that has placed the two campaigns in different eras. In 1960 the candidates for the first time debated on television, and politics began an almost metaphysical transformation: the external world was miraculously reconvened as powdered...
"Berlanga is among the most important Spanish filmakers. He is a person who straddles both historic eras. He is a person who is able to slip through the censors well," says Charles Pressberg, course head for Spanish F. "Saura is a major Spanish director. He uses imagery in a way...