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...money that fuels that access. Most of the oligarchs got started in the late '80s with money whose origins remain murky. There have been repeated allegations--and repeated denials--that the new millionaires received their start-up capital from the Communist Party, the KGB or other giants of the old system. In any event their companies did well during the privatization of the Russian economy in the early '90s. Perhaps their biggest break came in 1995. Nearly bankrupt, the government offered shares in some of the country's biggest concerns, like oil and mineral resources. The oligarchs gained control...
...these parties also serve as moments of intense action and change: Jack's 1980 New Year's party in particular is a crossroads after which none of the characters' lives remain the same. The carefree '70s have finished, and now these characters must face the sobering (if drug-ridden) '80s. What goes up must come down, and as usual, the fall is not nearly as much fun to watch as the rise...
...characters ultimately get some perspective as well. By the end of the film, in a shot that cleverly mirrors the opening disco scene, Jack surveys his "family" and uses a classic '70s word to describe what his life has become in the '80s: "mel-Photo courtesy of New Line CinemaAN ENSEMBLE CAST: BURT REYNOLDS, MARK WAHLBERG and JULIANNE MOORE invite you to their party and hope that you will stay around to help...
...about seven kids in my class born in the U.S.A., that I was particularly amenable to Republican patriotism. It was Reagan's image as an uplifting, all-American leader that made it easy to associate with the G.O.P., especially when compared with the wishy-washy Democratic Party of the '80s...
...part, this image of the '80s persists because I was too young to notice that the rich were getting richer while the poor lost out, that money that Reagan could have allocated to AIDS research or education was being diverted to a bloated defense budget. In part, too, this image persists because it was a simpler time: with the Cold War not yet won, the policy spotlight focused not on health care, affirmative action and gay rights, but on Star Wars...