Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conjunction with 8 to 11 guru Norman Lear, Yorkin developed, as his press release so modestly proclaims, a string of record breaking hits: "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Archie Bunker's Place." Commercial triumphs all, these Yorkin-Lear formula sit-coms were, in retrospect, surprisingly devoid of the socially relevant subject matter so current in many current series...
More than in any other Shepard play, the combat leads to catharsis. It also results in an apparent union, all but unprecedented for him, between two wholly sympathetic characters. And because Shepard has directed the play to be uproarious, it casts new light on all his work. In retrospect, his eerie lowlifes seem more farcical, less perversely heroic. His characters frequently lack a core of conviction. In this tale, some have so little sense of self that they cannot recall whether events happened to them or to someone they knew. Moreover, Shepard characters rarely speak lyrically; he keeps their language...
...Israelis began their withdrawal (from the Chouf Mountains) without any coordination with us, bringing chaos to the areas they had occupied, we concluded that this agreement was nil. The Israelis were so insistent on getting everything they wanted that they lost the opportunity for a peaceful withdrawal. In retrospect, we all made mistakes...
Medical science is not sure what a decade of daily dioxin exposure has done or will do. Cancers and genetic damage are the most fearsome possibilities. But one obvious effect of the dioxin discovery has been the rearrangement of townspeople's memories: in retrospect, that purplish coating on the streets has become the paradigm for life in Times Beach. They remember, now, all the dead birds around town, and the stillborn kittens and puppies. Michael Reid, 19, remembers that he and other children loved to bicycle behind the dioxin truck, skidding and sliding in the thick oil slick...
...retrospect, the Beatnik's chaotic lifestyles and massive drug inhalations that shook some cultural foundations thirty years ago seem rather mainstream today. Even the lifetime chronicled in Kerouac has a definable pattern: Home-City-The Road-City-Home. Kerouac ends right where he began: as other Beats point out, the stabilty of home, his mother and his father is all he sought...