![]() ![]() When writing about recent history, the inclination is to claim whatever we think about the past is secretly backward. It felt like the eighties might live forever when the Berlin Wall fell in November of ’89, but that was actually the onset of the euthanasia (though it took another two years for the patient to die). ![]() The seventies were conceived the morning after Altamont in 1969 and expired during the opening credits of American Gigolo, which means there were five months when the sixties and the seventies were happening at the same time. The sixties began when John Kennedy demanded we go to the moon in ’62 and ended with the shootings at Kent State in May of 1970. Decades are about cultural perception, and culture can’t read a clock. The Nineties began on January 1 of 1990, except for the fact that of course they did not. ![]()
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