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...Sheldon Kamieniecki, a specialist in political opinion at the University of Southern California. In the past decade, he argues, Americans came to believe they could not produce reliable products and had lost the technological war to Germany and Japan. "This was built in to the American psyche during the '80s on so many talk shows and in the intellectual debate over the U.S. decline," he says. "The war really removed that in a profound way that will be long lasting, well past the year...
That didn't last. A raunchier brand of action comedy co-opted the blaxploitation genre; Schwarzenegger and other supertough white dudes won the affections of the black audience. And still Hollywood would not make movies that scanned the spectrum of African-American life. The top black stars of the '80s, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, were segregated from many hero roles because they were seen only as inspired clowns. In buddy movies with white co- stars, they rarely got the girl -- any girl. They were Hollywood's best- paid second-class citizens...
...with a dissident playwright as President and a mandate to undo the past, Czechoslovakia's postcommunist government is determined to dismantle the country's arms industry. President Vaclav Havel has ruefully noted that Czechoslovakia sent Libya enough Semtex plastic explosives in the '70s and early '80s to keep the world's terrorists supplied for the next 150 years. Just two months after the November 1989 revolution, Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier announced that Prague would "simply end its trade in arms," without regard to economic consequences...
...many states willing to wager on something as chancy as novelty gambling? In a word: desperation. Towns on the northern reaches of the Mississippi were battered hard in the Rust Belt shake-out of the early '80s, and the oil bust has left Louisiana's coffers depleted. Hit again by the current recession, local governments are eager for any kind of development that will attract tourists and restore sagging tax rolls. Legislators are keenly aware that gambling is among the country's fastest-growing industries -- expected to be worth $278 billion this year alone -- and they want a piece...
...career, including one in 1971 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From 1964, when he first displayed his photo-based collages at Cordier & Ekstrom gallery in Manhattan, he had a steady market at high prices -- not, certainly, the crazed inflationary ones of the '80s, but respectable all the same. Most artists would kill for this kind of neglect and misunderstanding. So what does the case for Bearden-as-unjustly-marginalized-artist rest on? Apparently his exclusion from the "mainstream" of American art as defined by American white art historians, which happened, the catalog implies, because Bearden...