Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with many facets. American frivolity in the fine tradition of hula hoops and skateboards. Sillier than a corporate executive on a pogo stick, it could lighten the national blue period. But perhaps because the Museum of Modern Art has found the cube aesthetically comparable to Mondrian and Picasso, the trend has assumed and unbecoming air of profundity...
...reductions Reagan has already pushed through, as well as the additional ones he plans to propose, illustrate the hypocrisy of the Administration's economic philosophy and threaten the trend toward more accessible higher education. Reagan cuts tuition support in the name of conservatism, but he intends to increase federal spending in areas like defense, while simultaneously reducing taxes. The federal deficit will probably creep even higher than the $100-billion mark sheepishly estimated by the Office of Management and Budget. In short, saving a billion or two by making it harder for students to attend college or graduate school must...
Chains and leather on scrawny sub-urban bodies that are hurling themselves into each other, imitating the latest West Coast trend in post-Sex Pistols pop shock. Slam dancing doesn't come off too well, however, when the participants are constantly looking around to make sure they're doing it correctly. Not all of them are. One kid yells, "Stop slam dancing! I know people who broke ribs slamming!" His left ear gleams with a diamond, and he is connected to a girl by a chain that runs from his leather collar to hers...
...suppose if you wanted to pin down any single recent trend in American films, it would have to be romanticism, or more bluntly, escapism. Ragtime and Reds recall the times of horse-drawn fire engines and "high society', when reform and idealism weren't laughable pursuits, and you could fall in love without analyzing it first. The social messages of these movies have been dwarfed by their length, intricate period settings, and romances. Yet the only alternatives contain no message at all: norror, comedy, and adventure all start from the proposition "what if..."/ and ask that you leave the real...
Furthermore, as College officials suggest, those dramatic gaps are unlikely to close in the foreseeable future. The recent levelling of Black residency statistics seems to stem almost entirely from the unusually large number of white students sent to Currier House two years ago, not from any long-term trend towards racial balance. The College is right to consider ways of making the Houses the more representative, diverse units that most administrators believe they should be. We call upon Harvard to weigh seriously a random lottery for rooming groups to make their ideal of microcosmic Houses a tenable...