Word: scareder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Dow, now falling, is at 2103. Long lines of people form to take turns in the N.Y.S.E.'s spectator gallery. Heather Walker, 27, wants to "tell my grandchildren I was there." But she wonders if the crash means she will never be a mother. "Even in good times, men...
Broker Walter Burke pauses amid the plaintive calls from his customers. "Everyone's scared," he says. "They're bailing out." But he finds one consolation. "A fast death," he philosophizes, "is better than a slow one."
That's our thing, isn't it? Denial -- of pleasure, of all the stronger emotions. But of course they are there, and I admire the patient way you dig them out of our frozen soil. Dale Uecker flunking his algebra final his senior year and bravely tasting the glories of...
"Ever since the summer, I've been scared of it," said freshman Jim Stovell. "Now I'm psyched for it."
PRIOR TO Tunnel of Love, the best album about grappling with getting married was Lou Reed's Legendary Hearts, made in 1980. The parallels between the two LPs are most striking in the title songs. Reed sings of "Promises to keep/I never should have made/I was not meant for this/I...