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Boogie Nights makes its broadest statement in its interpretation of an American era. The movie begins in the year 1977, when the carefree excess and self-indulgence of the "Me Decade" were at their peak. The movie's pivotal sequence, a New Year's party celebrating the arrival of 1980, climaxes when one tortured porn groupie executes his wandering wife before blowing his brains out at the stroke of midnight. During the 1980s, selfish gratification takes on a colder, nastier edge, and the consequences finally came home to roost. Boogie Nights sends its characters into a spiral of degeneration...
...uniquely placid period in the market. As a society in love with stocks, we've never quite been here, so no one can be sure what to expect. When pushed, market veterans liken today's fervor to 1929 or 1968, both bull-market peaks. Because of key differences between now and those periods, however, few predict imminent disaster. But it's worth noting that after the '29 crash the S&P 500, excluding dividends, didn't fully recover for 25 years. And the '68 peak was part of a sideways market that lasted 18 years. Some believe a long...
...reelection. Having troubles in his campaign, the JFK wannabe assigns young Marcy to go back to the "old country"--Ireland--and trace his hereditary roots. Young Marcy arrives in a small, unheard of Irish town (where men have singing competitions and buses are still gender-segregated) at the peak of a quaint annual ritual: The Match-making Festival. Being single, Marcy is a marked woman; a lamb laid out to the wolves...
Every year in mid-October something indescribible occurs that seems to captivate the population of the United States for about a week-and-a-half. The changing colors of the leaves peak in beauty, the air becomes especially crisp, and the temperature redefines balmy...
Massachusetts is heading into its peak foliage season, a phenomenon that attracts tourists from all over the world. While Harvard Square may not exactly be a prime leaf peeping location, you only have to venture a little ways out into the suburbs to be completely blown away by a downright breathtaking array of colors that cannot be matched anywhere else in the country...