Word: v
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George V. Higgins...
...slight problem with Trust, George V. Higgins' 20th book, is that Earl's task is simple. He pulls off the theft easily; for fairly complicated reasons, the intended victim wants the car to disappear. Unfortunately, Earl ignores the instructions to have the hot auto crushed in a trash compactor. He sells it instead, a characteristic act of greed that promises to get him in trouble. But Higgins seems much more interested in atmosphere than in denouement. There are long, long passages of the author's by now patented low-life banter, characters being long-winded and tedious about the banalities...
That line was much more than just a reminder of the era before Roe v. Wade. It also consciously harked back to segregationist, backwater Virginia, a sleepy Southern state dominated by the oligarchic Byrd machine. The implication was that not only abortion and race were at stake but even the state's economic prosperity. It is oversimplistic to attribute too much influence to a single TV ad in a media-glutted statewide campaign. But the abortion issue was framed in a way that allowed Wilder to make inroads among racially tolerant, upscale voters who might be tempted to vote Republican...
...HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast...
...fact, as the "decade of apathy" draws to a close, many say the U.S Supreme Court's recent Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ruling, which upheld Missouri laws restricting abortion, has reawakened political activism on college campuses...