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...short-winded art hyped in the 1980s has gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When neoexpressionism arrived in the early '80s, it was as though an army of Bronze Age hectors had assembled, chanting hoarsely of sex, anxiety, death and egotism, leaving long tracks of slimy paint and broken crockery behind them in their progress toward the art centers of the world. The dull percussion of beaten chests went on for around five...
...withers like a corsage she forgot to press into her yearbook. Within the hash marks of familiar sports drama, the picture aims to be a Southern-fried epic, and Lange nudges Babs toward that goal. She is Scarlett O'Hara who almost becomes Maggie the Cat -- until, in the '80s, she ends up so strong and nurturing she could be a Lear's cover girl...
...believe in practicing safe satire," Aidala said. "Safe satire is a big issue for men and women of the '80s...
What has happened in the world as a whole between 1960 and 1988, and especially during the '80s, is analogous to what occurred in the U.S. in the years after the Civil War, between, say, 1875 and 1900. The railroads spreading west, the telephone, mass manufacture, elevators, a thousand other new items of technology -- all transformed America, opened its markets and shortened its distances. The world today is becoming a global society, and a much smaller planet, because of satellites, computers, jet travel, the interpenetrations of world markets, and the fact that Communism has grown cold in its extremities...
...papa of gonzo is, of course, Hunter S. Thompson, who at 49 seems to have lost his bite. In his best-selling new book Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, the old anger has been replaced by a wistful snit, as if Lenny Bruce had lived long enough to turn into another Mort Sahl...