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...well as the body. Andrew Sullivan, a Lowell House tutor and author of an article on body building for The New Republic, finds the psychology of the newly-popular Harvard weight rooms fascinating. "They are fundamentally solitary, which is why I think [working out] is the ultimate yuppie 80s activity," Sullivan says. "The weight room is sublimated safe sex, and that's the reason why it's booming...
They have also plunged deep into the art of the '80s to build a base for the year 2000. Given the shrinking number of 20th century masterpieces filtering onto the market and their relentlessly inflating prices, the Met will never be able to catch up with MOMA. But its gravitational pull as an institution should not be underestimated. The Met is the greatest general museum in America, and its new wing marks what may be the final phase in the competition for modernist icons. Quite a few of the privately owned works that Lieberman was assumed to have lined...
...world's economy did not collapse as Paul Erdman envisioned ten years ago in his geopolitical thriller The Crash of '79. And where is the return of runaway inflation that he hypothesized for the mid-'80s in The Last Days of America (1981)? Both scenarios have, for the moment, been upstaged by the selective prosperity of Reaganomics. But like many well-known experts, Erdman continues to prosper by being wrong. His writing career was in fact launched by an international banking blunder. That was in 1970, when he was vice chairman of the United California Bank in Basel, where officials...
Despite the fast-forward quality of the presidential chapters, Reagan's America is a prodigious feat of research and popular history. The author has synthesized disparate incidents and uncovered revealing data. From here on, no scholar or journalist will be able to confront the history of the '80s without stopping off at Innocents at Home to see the Ronald Reagans: the fictional and the real...
...autonomy of formal means suggests no "spiritual" aspect (as defined by the earlier parts of the show) at all. But this is a brave curatorial labor all the same, a stimulating and important move in the general rereading of modern art that is so much a part of the '80s...