Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later. In recent seasons, however, the cultural exchange has begun to work both ways, with regional theaters that have developed promising productions often joining forces with Manhattan institutions or producers. That is the case with two current off-Broadway delights: a lively feminist interpretation of the British social-class comedy Educating Rita by Chicago's Steppenwolf, the ensemble's sixth foray into Manhattan in the past five seasons; and a bewitchingly surreal satire with songs, Three Postcards, the second offering this season originated by California's South Coast Repertory, which, despite its setting in conservative Orange County, south...
...must remember that we cannot demonstrate the strength and vitality merely by producing better automobiles and supercomputers. If we mean to live up to our ideals and set an example that others will wish to follow, we must also be competitive with the most advanced nations in combating such social afflictions as poverty, homelessness, infant mortality, adult illiteracy, and violent crime...
...much publicized man shortage. For still others, they are a simple backlash against man-tailored suits and dress-for-success drabs. Valentino waxes philosophical. "We live today in a very difficult world," he observes. "Women have to make an effort to look more happy, more smiling. It is a social step, not a fashion trick...
...your writer serious about U2's social statements? Can he really hear the "moral imperatives" above the turbid screaming and screeching? Great musicians have made political statements with their music, which was not stylized through the gimmickry of electronics...
...police truncheons coming down and Revolution playing in the background. What that song is saying is a damned sight more important than flogging running shoes." "Music is replete with the meaning of the time," reflects Marshall Blonsky, a professor of semiotics at New York City's New School for Social Research. "Beatles music has to do with revolt, but the fitness game isn't revolutionary, it's conformism. The commercial's an attempt by advertisers to appropriate the missing past...