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...cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended in periods of heavy regulation. There are now signs, says the Report, that "strategic overreaching is already provoking a new countertide." Among the symptoms: public opinion worried about the ruling party in Congress favoring business...
...here is that seeing the new digs makes visitors think of money, and talking about money, as we have seen, makes Crichton sore. In fact, he is tight with a buck and says so. The little software company he formed in the early '80s came about because he saw movie man-hours being squandered on tasks computers could dispatch in minutes. (One more entry for the give-us-a-break file: he won an Academy Award for technical achievement for this assistance to studio accountants.) He wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make...
Once, though, just once, Crichton hung his personal life out nakedly--in an autobiographical book called Travels, published in 1988. In it he talks of his five-year attack of writer's block in the late '70s and early '80s. He wrote: "My subjective feeling every day was, it's hard, and it's not working." So he didn't work. He traveled like a fox on the run, racking up exotic locales, exploring the world and the mind, the squirrelier the better. He went through every bent-spoon, aura-fluffing, New Age, past-life, talk-to-plants, Aquarian-karmic...
...choppy incident and dialogue, never gathers enough force to power the story. This is Beattie's first novel in five years (she has published one collection of short stories since 1990's Picturing Will), and so a real disappointment. She was an authentic voice of the late 1970s and '80s, with a particular talent for detail and dialogue. Can it be that, five years into the '90s, Beattie's technique of constructing character by naming and labeling is dated? That, unfortunately, is the verdict on this book...
...play] focuses on the turmoil of life in the New York gay community in the '80s, and it spans the advent of the AIDS virus," Saunders said...