Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jyoti-Jasmine-Jane says at one point: "It is by now only a passing wave of nausea, this response to the speed of transformation, the fluidity of American character and the American landscape. I feel at times like a stone hurtling through diaphanous mist, unable to grab hold, unable to slow myself, yet unwilling to abandon the ride...
...amid the cries of outrage, the threats of revenge and half-hearted attempts at racial reconciliation, this summer may also have seen incidents that will cause the current wave of racial tensions to buckle under the weight of its own irrationality...
...newly inaugurated president Carlos Menem, riding a wave of public approval, has succeeded in halting the daily price hikes and the accompanying widespread uncertainty about how the average family will pay for its next meal...
...history could walk away from rock once it had been put snugly into that Woodstock pasture. Rock reacted by turning inward, to the softer personal speculations of the '70s singer-songwriters, then reacted again, first by exploding (punk), then by chilling out into the cerebrations of the New Wave bands like the Talking Heads and the slick, slightly spooky amusement-park soul of Michael Jackson...
...wave of foreign money comes at a time when U.S. investors have soured on film deals because of several flops among movie start-up ventures. Among them: the studio launched by producer Dino De Laurentiis, which filed for bankruptcy in 1988 after losing almost $200 million in two years, and a similar venture launched by veteran music promoter Jerry Weintraub, which lost $40 million last year after a string of duds that included My Stepmother Is an Alien...