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...image as the savior in his own quasi-religious faith.The album’s opener, “I Will See You in Far off Places,” starts with a banging rock opening that could be any number of bands from The Smith’s mid-80s heyday. But the lyrics immediately reveal Morrissey’s agenda to ponder the mysteries of life, not to simply entertain: “Nobody knows what human life is/why we come, why we go/so why then do I know/I will see you in far off places...
...When asked what Thatcher thought of his depiction, Hollinghurst opined dryly, “I don’t think she reads much contemporary fiction.”)Perhaps the most cataclysmically influential event of his pre-novel years was the rise of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-80s. Hollinghurst witnessed his own Oxford friend become one of the first known British casualties in 1984, when “nobody understood the disease. There was this tremendous ostracizing of the victim and the victim’s family out of ignorance and fear.” Early AIDS cases...
...what's the hold-up? The main obstacle has always been economics. From the mid-80s until 2003, oil prices-ever volatile--averaged out to about $25 a barrel. Making gasoline synthetically was way too expensive in comparison-$40-$46 per barrel. But with oil in the $60 range, liquefied coal is looking better than ever. "If one were assured of some stability in that base price, then they'd say, 'Oh, I guess I will invest the $6.5 billion it takes to build a coal liquification plant," David Garman, Under Secretary of Energy, told TIME...
...String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats Kaplin plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, pedal steel guitar, accordion) and I think their work is amazing...
...mid-80s, on a trip of American historians to Moscow, May said he witnessed firsthand Kennan’s diplomatic and scholarly expertise in arranging a collaboration with Soviet historians...