Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still the academic requirements pile onward. For a lot of undergraduates it's been a tough job to concentrate on medieval dates and wait for the sound of orders in a mailbox...
...text is sometimes magisterially suited to the operatic background music. But it is often cumbersome. (Sample: "From that day onward, they set about plotting to do away with him. On his part, Jesus refrained from coming and going freely among the people.") When Jesus preaches, the audience hears an inert medley of greatest hits -- aphorisms strung together without logic or sequence...
Someday, an 80s revival will happen, and someday it will be interesting. However, we've but just recently sounded the death knell on the 80s, and most of us are interested in pushing onward. Revivals seem only relevant once we've forgotten about whatever it is we're going to revive. Let the 80s corporate aesthetic rest for a while...
From the '50s onward, then, Hollywood began to move away from the bug-eyed, watermelon-eating portrayals of African-Americans that abounded in the '30s, introducing a wider variety of characters. As Stepin Fetchit became a phenomenon of the past, stars like Lena Horne and Sidney Poitier were born. Nevertheless, the roles available to Blacks were still basically tame--musicians, functionaries, and other characters that did little to challenge the status quo. The few movies that did have an edge to them were poorly distributed or received criticism for being too incendiary. For example, 20th Century Fox's controversial...
...contrast, the Bush-Quayle campaign, from the ill-starred G.O.P. Convention onward, regularly anathematized a host of Others: the nefarious "cultural elite"; the make-work lawyers in their tasseled loafers; the outlaw poor, who rioted in L.A.; the "nuclear-freeze crowd"; tree-hugging environmentalists; homosexuals and those perpetuating "alternative life- styles" as morally equivalent; the godless who, Bush reminded us, forget to put the three letters G-O-D in their party platform. Most of all, it went after liberals, especially those who pretended to be something else. The Republican campaign had spawned more demons than you could shake...