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      Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism
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      Rudy’s Ties to a Terror Sheikh
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      Is Stonewall Inn’s Anheuser-Busch ‘Pour Out’ a Moment or a New Movement?
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      Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism
      By Greil Marcus
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      Paul Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train is a Portrait of America
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      Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism
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    1980-1989: Poland Leads Eastern Europe Into the Abyss
    “There may be fresh ways of bat­tling out of the terrible contradictions of Third World–style polarization and ex­ploitation — and if there are, the remark­able Poles, if anyone, show promise of finding their way clear to them.”
    by Lawrence Weschler
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: The Decline and Fall of the New York Empire
    “The decade began with the fear of the mugger and it ends with fear of the mug­ger, but in the interim a new element of danger has been added.”
    by Nicholas Von Hoffman
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: How ’80s Music Bent the Color Line
    “One by one the idols of other nations visited us, but those with­out a Yankee sponsor barely registered as blips on the scale of mass appeal.”
    by Carol Cooper
    Originally published January 2, 1990
  • From The Archives
    1980-1989: The Awakening of Kool Moe Dee
    Rappers make their livings being articulate, and there's no one better to articulate the '80s from an Afrikan, youthful, working hip-hop perspective
    by Kool Moe Dee, as told to Harry Allen
    Originally published January 2, 1990
  • FEATURE ARCHIVES
    1980-1989: The Squandered Decade
    “Historians will look back on the 1980s with wonder: How was it that America managed to produce and invest so little, and consume so much? How did we let our priorities get so out of line, and the gap between rich and poor grow so wide?”
    by Robert B. Reich
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: A Decade of Death
    "Memorials. A new way to be unhappy in a group. I visit a friend who can no longer speak. A few days later he's dead. If you ask after people you haven't seen for a while, be prepared"
    by Gary Indiana
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: Crime as Entertainment
    “It would be no exaggeration to call the ’80s the decade of Crime as Entertain­ment. An epoch where fascination with ‘reality’ permeated every nook and crev­ice of television.”
    by Teresa Carpenter
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: The Meaning of the ’80s
    Here are letters between two seven-year-old girls about the ’80s. Their names are Zoozoo and Linda and they have parents.
    by Kathy Acker
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: Pop Goes the Decade
    “Everyone hanging out on St. Marks used to look like a Dr. Seuss character. Now St. Marks looks like a movie version of St. Marks. The East Village is turning into a giant mall.”
    by Eddie Gorodetsky, as ranted to Jan Hoffman
    Originally published January 2, 1990
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    1980-1989: The Crack-Up
    “In the ’80s, it was ‘Morning in America’ and we woke up to find that our night­mares were real: it became the Decade of the Quick and the Dead.”
    by Barry Michael Cooper
    Originally published January 2, 1990

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