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...would culminate in an outdoor movie shown on a movie screen in the MAC quad, Stewart added, suggesting "a much-loved '80s film like `Dazed and Confused...
...discovered their insatiable hunger for the electronic, which would create huge communal audiences: some 60,000 households had radio sets in 1922; more than 10 million had sets in 1929. The country began to turn itself into an image-saturated, stimulus-bombarded factory of desire. By the '70s and '80s, with the explosion of electronic communications, U.S. popular and kitsch culture would dominate the globe as no other had, with no limit in sight. So it was in the '20s that America's cultural fantasies started to become, for good or ill, the world...
...different explosion--in oil prices, interest rates and inflation. OPEC would prove to have powers that NATO could only dream of. Even the environmental movement would sound a warning: air and water, the fundamentals of life, were in limited supply. Though that mood receded in the '80s, traces of it linger in the new skepticism about large government undertakings, whether that means health-care reform or unilateral action in the gulf...
Technology, democracy and capitalism, the themes of this decade, interreact. PCs may have been born in the '80s, but the productivity payoff came in the '90s. (It took 10 years to figure out how to use the damned things!) Thus technology added mightily to this decade's prosperity, which reinforced the prestige of capitalism. Capitalism, meanwhile, repaid the favor. A few years ago there was talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival...
...also offer, or at least try to, a philosophical common ground. Since the great left-right struggles of the 1960s through '80s, the world has entered a millennial period in which common sense plays a greater role than knee-jerk ideological faiths. Although our stories often have a strong point of view, we try to make sure they are informed by open-minded reporting rather than partisan biases...