Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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The '70s did not destroy the family, but they permanently altered its structure. Everywhere, women-and increasingly, men -found themselves redesigning their lives as single parents. New sexual rules came into play. With a speed at least startling and at worst scandalous, the decade absorbed the '60s'...
According to Joseph Epstein, editor of the American Scholar, "a few things ought to be said on behalf of the 1970s -not least among them that they weren't the 1960s." But for a number of years the 1970s were the 1960s-at least until, say, the fall of...
Students take the pills to suppress exam-time jitters, and actors pop them to relieve stage fright. Lonely housewives rely on them to get through empty days, and narcotics addicts use them to counter withdrawal symptoms. Valium, the ubiquitous tranquilizer that has been on the market for 17 years, has...
The old-style Flyers, like many other teams playing in the league today, built their offense around the simple tactic of stationing a man in front of the net and trying to force the puck to him through the melee after digging it out of the corners. The attack was...
Badlands (1974). Terrence Malick's lean, poetic fable about a murderer and his girl on a rampage through lonely rural America in the 1950s.