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...J.F.K.'s assassination and the Beatles - just as "the '60s" ended when Americans got tired of being alarmed and hectored, and "the '70s" ended when stimulants became more popular than depressants and AIDS appeared. But in all salient respects, "the '80s" - Reaganism's reshaping of the political economy, the thrall of the PC, the vertiginous rise in the stock market...
...found myself (these things happen) at dinner with three Swedish entrepreneurs. They were, as you would expect, fun, clever, technologically up to the minute. And I thought: What do Sweden and China have in common? Just this, perhaps: one already rich, one rapidly becoming richer, neither nation is in thrall to American verities on the ways in which societies should be organized...
...became good friends - or, as friendly as the Cold War would allow. They covered the Potsdam Conference and the Nuremberg Trials together, for instance, and photographed one another there. Both men were hard-drinking bon vivants and lady killers. Capa wound up in Hollywood with Ingrid Bergman in his thrall, then went back to war and was killed in French Indochina in 1954. Khaldei wound up in a one-room flat on Moscow's outskirts on a $80 monthly pension, and died...
...would like you to think. Prince himself has released three decent albums during that same five-year period, but they’ve gone relatively unnoticed. No matter. Purple still reigns. Just ask Cam’ron. So don’t blame The-Dream for being in thrall to Prince. Any aspiring R&B singer would do well to study an album like “Dirty Mind,” to obsess over “1999,” to worship “Purple Rain.” However, you can blame The-Dream...
...suffer from wanderlust is to be in the thrall of travel, to have an itch to get out and see the world. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” wrote a brooding Robert Louis Stevenson in “Cheylard and Luc.” “I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move...