Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donald Barthelme must be high on anyone's list of great unread New Yorker writers, and this retrospective shows why. Open it at any point and there the author is, fluting a different tune but charming the same old snake. How strange life is, say his mannered little perplexities. How strangely strange. How oddly unfathomable. Can't make head or tail of it. Weird...
...warned against premature celebrations. Acknowledging his mandate to trim the department's budget from $14.8 billion to $13.1 billion for the 1983 fiscal year, Bell announced recently that some of the new reductions would be in student loans. "To borrow a line from Macbeth, 'We have scotched the snake but not killed it,'" he reportedly told financial aid administrators in August...
...were born between 1946 and 1964. Moreover, now that they are mostly in their 20s to mid-30s, many baby-boom adults are taking home big paychecks for the first time. Population experts refer to this as "the pig in a python" phenomenon because demographic charts today resemble a snake that has just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working its way through society, and is now reaching the center point. Says Consumer Researcher Fabian...
...used that theme to test an author's seriousness. Then, by shunning love in all of its disguises, he banished another of the four characters of Western literature's primal cast. God was gone, Eve was gone, and Hector had left himself with only Adam and the snake. Yet, rejoicing in that narrow range, he fashioned a comedy of manners that looks to be enduring...
...penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader of the Free World must appear by then at the Hartford Summit Conference (Hartlord!? Yeah, and the next summer Olympics are going to be in Elizabeth, New Jersey). Just to keep...