Word: 80s
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...University has retreated from its position at the cutting edge in the late 80s...
...begin to feel a little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple CD titled Emancipation, the first in his new deal with EMI. While...
...ambulance and a group of Harvard University Police officers descended on the sixth semiannual Leverett House 80s Dance on Saturday night to stop what some students feared were the beginnings of a riot...
...watch him buy his six-pack. But pundits rummaged around in the S.M.'s sock drawer for clues to how she would vote and wondered whether her choice of oversized minivans was a sign of male envy, like those huge shoulder pads in the power suit of the '80s...
Time and again, after the late '80s, one comes up against Johnses that seem to have no raison d'etre, and are valued merely because Johns did them. What is the point of those tracings done from a reproduction of Cezanne's Bathers? As homages they're trivial; as formal studies they're as uninteresting as his tracings done from a motif of his old idol Marcel Duchamp. Perhaps it is true that, as his admirers believe, a sublimely arcane and complex intentionality lies behind the fragmented and mingily internalized imagery of late Johns, tying all its scattered hints together...