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That, of course, was then, and this is now. Twenty years later, almost every cause that animated the '60s has been repudiated by the revisionism of the sedentary '80s. The interplay between Ronald Reagan and shifting cultural attitudes has created a new orthodoxy of patriotism and restraint: Viet Nam (a noble if tragic cause), drugs (just say no) and sex (play it safe). As the pendulum swings to the right, woe betide any baby-boom politician who spent the '60s doing anything more daring than swallowing goldfish and doing the Frug. Before the nation gives way to a new slogan...
...nationwide syndication. The show will be taped, uniquely, in two versions: English and Spanish. By far the most ambitious upcoming project is El Pueblo/L.A., a 14- hour mini-series being planned by CBS for telecast in 1989. The series, produced by Actor Peter Strauss, will chronicle the interplay of cultures that helped shape the city of Los Angeles from 1840 to 1975. A Hispanic Roots? Maybe not. But if El Pueblo/L.A. scores big in the ratings, it could do what Roots did for blacks: turn Hispanics, belatedly, into TV's hottest minority...
Other scientists note that global climate moves in broad historical cycles of warming and cooling tens of thousands of years long. Astronomical cycles, volcanoes, the interplay of deserts, oceans, cloud cover, even the methane produced by termites, can affect the density of the atmospheric greenhouse. Declares Chester Ropelewski, a climate specialist with the Maryland-based Climate Analysis Center: "It's still not clear whether this is the CO2 signal. The hard evidence isn't there...
...shifts the problem from the psychological to the socio-economic realm. Instead of blaming poverty and its associated pathologies primarily on the individual, as conservatives do, or on the effects of contemporary racism, as some liberal scholars do, Wilson calls for a "refocused liberal perspective" which emphasizes "the dynamic interplay between ghetto-specific cultural characteristics and social and economic opportunities...
...very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about...