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...suddenly, an enormous amount is riding on it. NBC, the onetime kingpin of prime time, has seen its fortunes turn sour almost overnight. Its biggest hit of the '80s, The Cosby Show, took early retirement last spring, while several other veterans -- The Golden Girls, Matlock and In the Heat of the Night -- were given their unconditional release. (All were later picked up by rivals.) The network's last remaining Top 10 hit, Cheers, will call it quits at the end of this season; highly regarded younger shows like Seinfeld have not lived up to ratings expectations; and with the loss...
...didn't have to be from the G.O.P. to feel like a wallflower at this '90s party; you only had to be from the '80s. At the swearing-in ceremony, Geraldine Ferraro was looking lost and alone in her mediocre seat. At one of the fancy private dinners, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis were planted in a dark corner and remained unintroduced throughout the evening...
...80s and 90s have seen nothing like the storm of 1978. For the first time in Harvard's history, the University officially closed. Only emergency vehicles were allowed on the road. The city was silent. The Square shut down and students were stuck in their rooms...
Nureyev danced everywhere in a huge variety of roles, from the full-length classics to modern works by Martha Graham, Paul Taylor and Maurice Bejart, among many others. During the '70s his plasticity began to decline, robbing his performances of their wonderful flow. By the '80s the problem had become severe, but despite the advice of friends and critics he would not quit. He was not, however, just a nomad. In 1983 he became artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet for six colorful years. Again his temperament made headlines, but Nureyev gave the company a professionalism it had virtually...
...baby boomers' parents, those members of the World War II cohort now in the twilight of their lives, are the wealthiest generation in American history. Blessed by the real estate boom of the 1970s and '80s, the stock- market surge of the '80s and lucrative pensions, Social Security payments and a high savings rate, older Americans as a group have amassed a nest egg that New York University economist Edward Wolff values at $5.3 trillion -- an average of $258,000 for each household headed by a person over 64. Those assets mean an unprecedented windfall for many otherwise struggling younger...