Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...robust art form will often have its health called into question. Take English theater, for example. American visitors to London commonly discover that theater there flourishes as in no American city--and that newspaper reviewers are constantly issuing mournful prognoses and wistful elegies for some dim golden age. Conversely, when an art form is regularly praised for its strength, you naturally grow a little apprehensive...
...Whoever things the '50s were a golden age either wasn't conscious or doesn't know what they're talking about," Dukakis said. "Schools now are unquestionable better and there is an improvement of black and Hispanic literacy and quality of life...
Dukakis pointed to Cold War as the focus of this supposed golden...
...enemy has almost reached the point where he can touch the golden ring," Koernke intones in the video. "All their different schemes, plotting and conniving have come to a nexus, a point in time at which they have the opportunity to grab everything." The only hope, he declares, lies in inducing the conspirators to act prematurely, before their confederates in the Federal Government have managed to completely disarm the Patriots. "If we are lucky, we can get them to move too quickly." War on American soil is probably inevitable. "Did I say it was going to be a short...
Every movie, it now seems, is a sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding...