| 单词 | eighty |
| 例句 | Ruby was in her late eighties too, with a sharp mind that seemed decades younger than her frail body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “The county discontinued bookmobile service in the eighties, and I told my husband, ‘Now, that’s a shame. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The first one is: divide four hundred and eighty by six. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At the writing of this, I can tell you that I am somewhere between one hundred sixty and one hundred eighty years old, although I don't enjoy looking my age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Greed, delusional visions of grandeur, the mercenary mercilessness that made every relationship expendable—Midland perfected all these long before they became the standard of the eighties around the rest of the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Webb, who was in her eighties, lived in a single-story wooden house in Fairfax, not far from where the Smiths’ home had exploded. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He reaches the end of the street, scribbles something on a pad, turns one hundred and eighty degrees, and walks back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The machine was heavy, maybe eighty pounds, and was suspended from the ceiling by a thick rubber cord. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was getting nineties, eighties, whatever, they just give me a grade,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z About eighty per cent of the girls who came to him needed money to pay off a mortgage. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z First was the arcade of piers that rose eighty feet from the foundation. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The bomb had hit the road less than eighty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As usual, Sefia was curled up in a hammock strung between two trees, eighty feet above the forest floor, with the canopy creaking and swaying above her and the mulchy ground far below. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Then Skinner and Sour Alyn seized his arms and legs and tossed him from the wall to the ground eighty feet below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If done properly, it would barely miss the moon as it passed a mere eighty miles in front of it, at a distance of 230,000 miles from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Signal light flashing, they were speeding down the highway at eighty miles an hour when Bruno said, “Wait a minute, you better slow down, look, up ahead—hey! What’s with that guy? Jesus, Granny—STOP!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, within another half hour, Edison Elementary clinches the third round with a score of eighty. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Her name was Anna. Lord, how sweet she was, that child! It’s queer to think she’d be close to eighty now, if she’s even still alive. And my son—he’d be eighty-two.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He declared that every patient had to pay eighty cents, except for women, children, the truly poor, and anyone seriously ill. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “We was a weak and puny country eighty odd years ago when the great-granddaddy of us young ’uns got mixed up in a rebel’s fight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Thug said, “Shoot, I knew she had to be either old or crazy to have anything to do with that man. How old was she, eighty, and was she blind?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Sir, it just isn’t right to make the men in this group fly eighty missions when the men in other groups are being sent home with fifty and fifty-five.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Since that time, Tokyo has been eerily quiet, so the strain beneath the surface has been building for eighty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All told, nearly eighty thousand Seattleites—far more than Washington’s football stadium could hold—had taken an early start to a gorgeous weekend and come out to watch the races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Gosling began his experiment by doing a personality workup on eighty college students. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Seventy-five, eighty, eighty-five,” I chanted, sliding the nickels around in his palm. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z "And we probably each eat about twenty onions a day, so that's ..." "Two hundred and eighty onions," said Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z If I had known I wouldn’t be back in the next eighty years, I probably wouldn’t of let myself sleep right through. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly all the other witches, more than eighty of them, were beginning to scream and jump up out of their seats as though spikes were being stuck into their bottoms. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Papin was well aware of this: he proposed to the Royal Society a ship of eighty tons, perhaps 100 feet long, costing ‘but four hundred pounds’ to build. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Father: Arthur Fox, beloved English film and stage actor best known for his turn as James Bond in the eighties, deceased 2015. Y’all drink.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z What happened to them in the last three hundred and eighty years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And how I got twenty-two cream puffs for two dollars and eighty cents less than I should have—plus two more free, since they come cheaper by the dozen. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The INS uses them at its second checkpoint, some eighty miles north, near Cotulla. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z If it took us five units to travel three hundred and eighty years...? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I hope you don’t remember how mean I was when you’re eighty years old. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z She toured more widely than ever, giving as many as eighty or ninety concerts a year. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It had to be eighty degrees in here. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Being stuck in a metal bullet hurtling alongside other metal bullets at eighty miles per hour is not my idea of fun.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Well, that ain’t too old. My poor old Tante Marguerite, the one I told you them kids beat up on to get fifty cents out her coin purse, she going on eighty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She would blast eighties music and zip between the stove and the cutting board and the oven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Four hundred and eighty rods of mighty fine fence, if I did say so myself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “The Brat was a Los Angeles band in the early eighties.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It all added up to seventy or eighty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then, of course, that sell order didn’t go through and there was a merger and so you were, at that point, worth something in the neighborhood of four hundred and eighty thousand dollars.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Being in a car with Theo and her brothers was like shutting myself in a bank vault with eighty pounds of TNT and a lit fuse. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I’m offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “He’s every bit of three hundred and eighty years old! Coll himself told me.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z They were going about eighty kilometers an hour before they slowed down to take the curve. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I turn and walk back among the eighty- odd officers milling around the crowded room, looking for someone who might know what job 254 is. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s short for coconuts. But it’s also like the Go-Go’s. You know, that band from the eighties?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “A hundred and eighty marks then. Not a copper more. Take off her chains.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It’s been eighty years, but I haven’t been back there since then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But on the last day an astonishing number of English heavies opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The black workers at Sparrows Point made about eighty cents an hour at most, usually less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two- thirds full but felt one-third empty. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The notion that juvenile offenders are fundamentally different from adult ones lasted for more than eighty years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One fire at Lehigh started in 1850 and didn’t burn itself out until the Great Depression—eighty years after it started. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I sensed the presence not of a virus but of financial illness—clinical signs of the eighties, like your skin peeling off after a bad fever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t mention that it was eighty degrees outside. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the bow of the ship, the figurehead turned a hundred and eighty degrees to look at them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Well, she’s old, but I guess after eighty years of living in District 4 she can keep afloat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The water didn’t look to be eighty feet away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The outer wall stood eighty feet high, the inner more' than a hundred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Rumbling and hissing, eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “So this eighty dollars makes you more perfect than everyone else at the table, then?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She was probably eighty years old, but she could still carry one of the giant trays that held a dozen bowls of cowboy beans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Jones, who was only thirteen and weighed little more than eighty pounds, quickly found himself on the losing end of the tussle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom turns up her stereo even louder with her horrible eighties music, and I give up on sleeping. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Still, it let me know Trebon was somewhere between fifty and eighty miles to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As Winston stood watching it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution hap-pened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And, though it’s been more than eighty years, I never have. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had assumed Mrs. Croft was in her eighties, perhaps as old as ninety. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Everybody, Jane? Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I check the weather online and it’s eighty degrees in Puerto Rico right now. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The owner wanted a dollar and a half and didn’t come down to eighty cents for three days. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She was glad she’d worn a blouse and poodle skirt—it was almost eighty degrees outside, much too hot for the jeans she’d originally planned to wear. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "The fuel plant can make seven hundred and eighty kilograms of fuel from that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On Friday nights, he is a host for a Bible-study and dinner party for seventy or eighty Christian students, who serve themselves heaping plates of pasta before breaking into study groups. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The temperature is going to hit a ridiculously high eighty degrees for April. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In the eighty bunks the women snored and shifted under their sheets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Fire Swamp R.O.U.S.s were a pure rat strain, weighed usually eighty pounds, and had the speed of wolfhounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She’d managed to turn Sciron one hundred and eighty degrees, but he still saw the water in front of him, the rolling countryside at his back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Captain Black looked out the rocket port with his face that should have been the face of a man eighty but seemed like the face of a man in his fortieth year. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irish Justice of the Stockyards District Police Court, with jurisdiction over minor crimes in that neighborhood, dismissed more than eighty percent of claims brought against strikers accused of violent attacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the end, Hillary Clinton won nearly three million more votes than her opponent, but Trump had captured the Electoral College thanks to fewer than eighty thousand votes spread across Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Are you serious? Yes! I was dying to go but they’re like eighty dollars each. Wait, how did you get tickets?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, an extra eighty cents a week was a princely sum. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh well. There’s always tomorrow. And it’s not cold. It’s probably eighty.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Before the war, Jack had had parents, a brother, a sister, a grandfather, uncles, aunts, and cousins—eighty people in all. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, then,” Tuck repeated, “seeing you know, I’ll go on and say this is the finest thing that’s happened in—oh—at least eighty years.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He was driving eighty miles an hour when he drove head-on into a family, killing the mother and grandmother. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z White was now in his eighties and, as lie intended, not far from the end of his fortune. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When he was seventeen years old they had sent him north with eighty dollars hidden in his shoe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I’m getting eighty thousand dollars from the settlement!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She was well over eighty at the time. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When the rays of the sun and her magnetic sense lined her up with eighty degrees longitude, she was ready to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There’s no way the ship has a compartment big enough to hold enough water for three hundred and eighty years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “But even if Russell had played in the eighties, he would have dominated.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Ten minutes before we closed, I picked up the cheapest laptop BJ’s offered, came to a hundred and eighty bucks cash with my employee discount. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The hole was found to be eighty feet deep. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z By seven that morning it was already in the eighties, and our bangs stuck to our foreheads, our faces red and dented with pillow marks, gray crud in the corners of our eyes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z She turned to face the dog, which had done a one- eighty to look at us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The competition to lead the Review was ferocious every year, involving rigorous vetting and a vote by eighty student editors. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z From the twenties through the eighties, whatever else there hadn’t been in Odessa, there had always been high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They invited all their friends from college and church and convinced the management to crank the heat up to eighty degrees? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Hell, yeah. And it would be eighty if they had icy soles.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I had two dollars and eighty cents in my drawer at home to pay for the late fees for the remaining two weeks when we returned to Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember happier times—movie nights in our old basement, sharing popcorn, and my mother’s un-ironic love for eighties movies starring Molly Ringwald. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The number may, however, be estimated at from twenty to fifty, seventy, eighty, ninety, or an hundred and more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in his eighties and short and fat and built like a rock. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “These were like eighty bucks,” he defended himself. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There was Uncle Neville hanging with Sierra’s mom and dad back in the eighties, all three of them looking wildly happy outside some nightclub that had long since burned down. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Garret Charles actually gave us a generic monologue about the dust of California in the eighties. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Once they knew the amount, the funeral cost eighty percent of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighties weren't the most ideal time to be a Persian in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I ’membered when I first met the cap’n and how I thought I outweighed him by eighty pounds and could real easy smash his head in with my fist. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I hit eighty in a row, my all- time best, but as I kept going, I felt more and more like a two-year-old. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Subtracting the eighty dollars that she and Megan had spent on lemonade and cups, each girl had made a profit of sixty-four dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z He’d found them while rummaging in the basement of an abandoned building at the hospital sometime in the eighties, he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the early eighties, before I was born, he opened one of the first integrated restaurants in Johannesburg, a steakhouse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a class in which everyone got a ninety on every test, and an eighty was a source of derision. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z If his calculations were correct, they were only eighty miles from South Georgia Island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “The first I seen him carry that ball, he busted that line for eighty yards. Do you know how you feel when you see your son doin’ good, doin’ somethin’ special? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know how Cake, sorry, I mean Keiko, was all into those boring old black-and-white movies? I got her to watch better retro movies, from the eighties.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He sighed, and I watched with relief as the needle gradually drifted toward eighty. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z That meant twenty dollars was worth at least four hundred eighty Zim dollars—enough to get me back in school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She had some eighty others still on wing in the city, but the blast ripped outward so fast and far it seized them all in its undertow and swept them away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her grandmother says it’s eighty degrees there, and Fina pulls her sweater tighter around her, even though the oven is keeping the whole house toasty. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The laboratory to which Mr. Loomis reported the next day was eighty feet underground, a place as big as a house, hollowed out of a mountainside of solid rock. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At the urging; of my father, sometimes on my lunch break, I would drive over to check up on her, make sure she was doing okay, because she was now in her eighties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Some said it was more, eighty or ninety thousand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The camp houses about eighty girls, their ages ranging from ten to fifteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I give him a dollar, and he counts back my change: “A nickel is eighty, a dime is ninety, and another dime; makes one dollar!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z With eighty dollars a week, I might have enough for lessons and a keyboard by the time I start seventh grade this September. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But in the early eighties, when someone gave Henrietta’s medical records to Gold, there was no such law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “They say you only need a hundred pounds per acre. I’m putting on closer to one hundred eighty,” Naylor explained to me, a bit sheepishly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “It was back in the eighties. Siobhan was still alive. Came to the dedication and everything.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When Bessie arrived in town, most of the eighty beds in the bunk room had been claimed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "According to your latest satellite data, the dust storm in Arabia Terra isn't abating at all, and will block eighty percent of the sunlight?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z During the next boom period in the seventies and eighties, Odessa made a telltale leap into the twentieth century. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If Vern was ninety-five years old, he must have been scuba diving and teaching into his eighties. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I take ’em all, from eight to eighty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z With the speedometer creeping past eighty, ninety, ninety-five, I wasn’t remembering much at all. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In the early eighties, a group called Odessans for Decency had been formed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m ashamed to admit I don’t know. But if you’re keen, I can introduce you to someone who does—my Uncle Oggie. He’s eighty- three, lived here his whole life. Still sharp as a tack. ” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Sitti was eighty and Poppy said her mother had lived to be ninety-nine. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Near on eighty years old, and still wearing high heels. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A descendant of eighty pole fighters, I ought to be able to set out confidently, march straight down our street, get going right now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Hell, Kate, you lose all your contacts in a hundred and eighty days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Because we don’t have enough money. Each ticket is two forty-five. That makes nine dollars and eighty cents all together and we’ve only got seven dollars.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had a bad time on that eighty acres. Besides, he’s got plenty of land where his home sits and he don't need the aggravation. But I believe that’s only part of it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So I started a column called “Birthday Corner,” listing the names of the eighty or so people who had their birthday in the coming month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On the average, the Sun and the planets spend forty million years in a spiral arm, eighty million outside, another forty million in, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty divided by three trash cans is eighty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z But there’s an older woman—she’s probably at least eighty—who catches my eye and lifts her hand to her shoulder in a little fist and gives me a nod. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z So far I had made almost eighty different buildings here in the storage room, or my city room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “You still need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I’m eighty- three years of age and I’d like to go to my grave healthy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But the situation in the eighties felt like a new low. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “They say the odds are eighty percent that without GPS on that boat you should have died at sea,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten thousand, eighty minutes to turn in the perfect shot to Ms. Bethune. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She was seventy when I was taken, which meant she’d be inching closer to eighty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Normally, the husband’s family would give the wife’s family a dowry of cows, but in this case, John agreed to send money worth the equivalent of eighty cows. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z "I see. And what does seven hundred and eighty kilograms of fuel buy us?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of these crevasses were narrow enough to step across; others were eighty feet wide, several hundred feet deep, and ran half a mile from end to end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z About eighty feet to Piper’s right, Jason battled Otis, sword against spear. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Sometime in the eighties they invented pig balls, for pigs who were being fattened in pens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was the one hundred and eighty dollars American money ?” “No.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the eighties, using HeLa and other cells, scientists studied HPV infection and how it causes cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the end, Jefferson estimated that it cost him nearly eighty dollars just to get to Germantown. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Visible light has a wavelength of between only forty and eighty millionths of a centimeter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But it takes us eighty cards to get there. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Like Keav, I am alone here, even though I eat the same food and sleep in the same hut with eighty girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, they were all killed. All eighty of them.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z His secretary was a white lady who looked about eighty years old. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As it turned out, the reckless, freewheeling ways of the First National Bank of Midland made it a trendsetter in the American banking industry during the eighties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She told me her mother passed away in 2002, at the age of eighty- nine. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Four lines to here. Then five more. That’s one hundred and eighty feet. Eagle’s Ridge is the highest.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z One of those dogs must have weighed eighty pounds. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo was sure they would be charitable if he went to them to apologize and recant and promised to fly eighty missions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I spread and closed my fingers ten times and said, “Nope. Look. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She had lived over eighty years—had come over from Africa, people said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If we had asked the Iowa gamblers why they were favoring cards from the blue decks, they wouldn’t have been able to say—at least not until they had drawn eighty cards. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In two years, eighty migrants have shared the room with her family. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The King of Northgalis, who was the leader of the opposite side, had one hundred and sixty knights in his faction, and King Bagdemagus only had eighty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She is in her eighties and still watches over her family like a lioness protecting her pride. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He was big, a hundred and eighty pounds and six feet one. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We each take one, pull him one hundred and eighty degrees around, and start to drag him into the saltwater. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There is a similarly operated boys’ camp not far from us on the other side of the rice field, with approximately another eighty boys supervised by their comrade brother, or Met Bong Preuf. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, most of the city’s eighty physicians did not believe that the illness described by Rush was indeed yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I stared at the photo of eighty young faces smiling into the camera. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It sails over the city walls and bursts against the northern parapet of Fort National, where three hundred and eighty Frenchmen are being held against their will with minimal cover. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I had the night off. Watched basketball at a bar downtown, then went to a guy’s house to play poker. Won eighty bucks. Gave me a hell of an alibi.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I didn’t slot it into the rest of the pattern until the eighty- seventh kick of the garden shed. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after three hundred and eighty years, the book smells like home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah. We’re doing music from the sixties through the eighties for our concert.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They had eighty acres and couldn’t make it either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Both couples divorced in the eighties and the end of their marriages marked the breakup of the band. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Her face shows both the burden and the full understanding of all her eighty years or more. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It took two buses to carry the eighty band members and our equipment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For eighty years, this false story has been repeated in textbooks, popular books, articles, and movies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Her grandmother is in her eighties, bedridden, all but senile, unable to eat or talk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Was he one of those old men with white hair like Jacques Cousteau who wore scuba suits well into their eighties? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Slender iron rods just two and a half inches thick and eighty feet long linked the rim, or felloe, of each wheel to a “spider” affixed to the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There must have been eighty students in that room, and I’ll bet ninety-five percent of them approached him at some point. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Bull troll. Fully grown. One hundred and eighty kilos, with tusks like a wild boar. A really wild boar.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She put two dollars and eighty cents back in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Turton says that if you lived to be eighty years old, your heart would beat three billion times. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We laughed and at the same time said, “One hundred and eighty pounds.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The island was not far—maybe eighty yards. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After taxes and social security, I’d be taking home over eighty dollars a week. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "And I heard Jordans cost, like, eighty bucks," John John followed, again stealing Ms. CeeCee's line. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Her house sat eighty feet from the sidewalk and was backed by four huge pine trees, from which she got the needles she stuck into her mattress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know, so gross. But it’ll be worth it for eighty bucks a week.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She read between a hundred and eighty and two hundred newspapers a day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The address that Patrolman Mancuso was looking for was the tiniest structure on the block, aside from the carports, a Lilliput of the eighties. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “SHE SCORES! SHE SCORES! Gryffindor leads by eighty points to twenty!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies and eighties, the influx of Hispanics rapidly increased and many began living not only on the Southside but the west side as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You still need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Board of Education overturned eighty years of established law and centuries of custom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Ha! Well, yes, I suppose he did, Reggie. I suppose he did. God, I miss the eighties.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He still sometimes observes them even now, though he is over eighty years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He added and re-added columns of figures, always eighty cents too little or eighty cents too much. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Measures eighty values—temperature, UV index, dew point, you name it.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then Gosling had close friends of those eighty students fill out the same questionnaire. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “See how he looks so youthful, who would believe he is eighty?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z This girl’s name was Aluthra, and her skin was of a dusky perfection unseen in India for eighty years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was singing an eighties song out loud when we entered. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z For relaxation, I read eighty pages of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun courtesy of Johanssen's digital book collection. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Kiel was approximately a hundred kilometers from Denmark and only eighty kilometers from where my sister was sent to live with our old great-aunt. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Our suits can stand a measly eighty indefinitely.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z My wife and I were mugged in the eighties in Brooklyn Heights; the criminal was a crack addict who was finally apprehended after robbing several other people. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost eighty kids stayed after school with Mrs. Granger that day. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I’ve written more than eighty books and more speeches than I can remember. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z "All right, if you used the other eighty percent—" "Checking," Martinez said, running the numbers on his console. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was filled with the late seventies and early eighties music he loved. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I shrank as the Devil turned eighty eyes on me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The old people’s home is at Marengo, about eighty kilometers from Algiers, I’ll take the two o’clock bus and get there in the afternoon. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “There are eighty of you in the car,” the German officer added. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Carlton was a frail man in his late eighties, with skin so pale it looked almost translucent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But as for many other institutions in the eighties, greed overcame history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Children who made it through the perilous first years had a good chance of reaching the age of sixty, and some even made it to their eighties. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have many little children,” the last hereditary chief of the tribe, who was in his eighties, explained in a statement issued to the press. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It had three dollars and eighty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My favorite stuff was from the seventies and eighties, old punk that Dad always played. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He took eighty cents in change from his pocket and placed it on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt like someone in an eighties movie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Almost two hundred of them, Your Grace. And more than eighty mammoths.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It blinks as brightly as it did three hundred and eighty years ago on the first day, when Ben pointed out the supply room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Add eighty more. I want a hundred men. Clear?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The government was also building a massive factory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a secret city with eighty thousand workers living in trailers around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Commandant would rather put a scim through you than deal with tears, and I didn’t spend one hundred eighty marks just to throw your corpse to the vultures.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He and his wife, Mabel, had two daughters who lived into their eighties and two sons who died as infants. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Rosy and relaxed with sleep, eighty little boys and girls lay softly breathing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z James Garfield was dead, eighty days after Charles Guiteau's bullet pierced his back. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Before the storm, she and her husband, who was eighty, had checked into a hotel downtown, knowing that there they would be among other residents and guests. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The boys closed at eighty cents and gave him an I.O.U. which he probably still has. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z White workers got higher wages, but Fred didn’t complain: eighty cents an hour was more than most Lackses had ever seen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They didn’t see him again for one hundred and eighty days. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Granny’s birthday. She’s about eighty years old and belongs to the Portuguese tribe. How many people are there like that on the city’s computer?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z An eighties teen movie might not be what I need right now, but I’m also too agitated to read a poem about hope being a bird. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Dad said that while a lot of great music came from the eighties, there were a lot of not-so-great things too, like Ronald Reagan and Day-Glo fashion. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I get out of the car because I feel like its eighty thousand degrees and I need the fresh air to stop my head from spinning. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The interesting part is that there were eighty soldiers who came out of the fort that morning. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Amid the ethnic kitsch, there were still a few authentic coffee houses, patronized by old men in their seventies and eighties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was a woman in her eighties during the first decade of my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Four hundred and eighty rods of maybe the finest fence in Montana! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If you become so excited about your new vice president job that you drive home at eighty mph, you get pulled over by the police and fined $ 100. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Lefty stands up, nothing broken, and watches as Zizmo hurdes crazily on into the darkness . . . sixty yards . . . eighty ... a hundred . . . until suddenly another sound is heard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was still almost eighty degrees outside, the sun hadn’t even set, and he stood in his dark three-piece suit, smiling his stiff, press-on smile, gesturing to everybody and nobody like the Queen of England. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He had walked eighty miles in four days through the hottest weather he had ever known and he had gone down with sunstroke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was the eighties, when nothing was sacred—except, of course, the making of money and the protection of glass-house empires at all expense. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Each bed is eighty inches wide, and smooth and flat as a tabletop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They come up from the South, eighty thousand men, up the narrow roads that converge toward the blue mountains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Cliffs rose eighty feet high on either side of the cove, but at the southwest corner they spied a rocky beach where they could haul out. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps eighty years earlier, dust storms had engulfed the high plains, blackening the glaciers in the peaks above. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The youngest Walker son rented out 8800 all through the eighties and nineties when Death claimed the lives of dealers and junkies alike. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Behind Davos and his sons came another line of hundreds commanded by knights and lordly captains, and then the smaller, slower Myrish contingent, none dipping more than eighty oars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Nantucket, with its vistas overlooking cranberry bogs and more than eighty miles of beaches, has always had its share of rich people. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a waterfall dropping off a high shelf of rock and falling eighty feet through a gray shroud of mist into the pool below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Even some of her old students, who were now almost eighty years old. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z During the next few decades, they discovered more than eighty large paleo-Indian sites throughout the United States, Mexico, and southern Canada. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The gardener did everything Clara told him to do and won eighty pesos in an illegal numbers game that was held behind a coal store. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Goldman added up twenty-two cream puffs in his head “For that you need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Some hours, eighty or ninety of these flares would go off, one after another, and the night would turn stark and strange in that magnesium glow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I don't know, and I suppose I could ask my mother, who is now in her eighties, but I don't think it matters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But they aren’t real ruins: They’re like a sculptural re-creation of ruins built eighty years ago, but the fake Ruins have been neglected pretty badly, so they have kind of become actual ruins by accident. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z At eighty miles per hour, the engine was only idling. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There are no big changes between ten and twenty—or ten and eighty, for that matter. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Then that leaves eighty to go,” the Centipede said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yep. Strong signal. Moving north at about eighty klicks an hour.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z That wall was said to be forty feet thick at its narrowest, and near eighty on the seaward face, a double course of stones with an inner core of sand and rubble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She looks around her camp, her eyes focusing on a few faces she recognizes among the eighty girls she lives with. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see in The Times they had it well over eighty in London yesterday,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday nights we went to the nearby town—a series of wood-framed small buildings, all without running water or electricity—wherein lived seventy or eighty people. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After turning over about eighty cards, most of us have figured out the game and can explain exactly why the first two decks are such a bad idea. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Every decade has had its landmark moments in HeLa research, and the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was only one of several in the eighties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The largest canals were seventy-five to eighty feet across and twenty feet deep. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “But what have I to do with millions? The eighty, I know, despise me.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “You’re not going to get any. You’re going to get eighty shares of stock in a company called the Memorial Wooden Container Corporation.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Antarctic contains ninety percent of the world’s snow and ice, and there are more than eighty kinds of it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “It’s plastic! I’ve had it since the eighties! Ha! I love it!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A man gets on the bus, his cell phone in his hand, and he is playing music for the entire bus, holding his phone up like it’s an eighties boom box. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Surely, the eighty pole fighters, though unseen, would follow me and lead me and protect me, as is the wont of ancestors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The purpose of their stay, the letters stated clearly, was to observe and explore the various unsavory stories which had been circulated about the house for most of its eighty years of existence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z To someone standing on a platform watching it pass, the train would appear to be only eighty yards long and everything on it would be similarly compressed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s only ten in the morning, but it’s already eighty degrees out—a good day to stay inside. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Justis had traveled with the team for a couple of years in the early eighties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Chester had planted twenty acres in flax and harvested eighty bushels. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “You watch way too many movies from the eighties.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z For eighty days, anxious Americans consumed every detail about President Garfield's medical condition. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z All were sent to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, a baking-hot group of islands about eighty miles west of the Florida Keys. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If the blood vessel was injured at the time of the shooting, they argued, the sac would have burst long before eighty days passed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Two hundred and eighty days—six days a week most of the time—without ever really knowing what the future would hold. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It’s been over eighty all week. What if this is heatstroke? I don’t know nothing about heatstroke.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “And we bought eighty shares of a coffin manufacturing firm for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “Craig, like eighty percent of the people I know are on medication. For ADD or whatever.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “According to the original price...eighty bucks. But we’re charging half.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He did a few spins, and popped and locked his body like he was raised in the eighties. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z All I had to do was bag my drum lessons, and I’d be saving the family eighty bucks a month. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That left him two options: jump eighty feet to his death, or stand and fight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It’s the first time the winter blossoms have bloomed in eighty years.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I think he might be eighty years old. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Once, she had counted eighty lemmings piled at the nest of a snowy owl. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After Dad had taken him for about eighty bucks, Robbie started muttering angrily to himself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They moved in a column of twos, eighty in all. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “How shall we deal with strangers, except as brothers? How shall Gethen treat with a union of eighty worlds, except as a world?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “And set four hundred eighty rods of fence?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He had a little more than eighty hours left, and somehow he was going to enter the competition. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Maybe another eighty years, but I don’t have that and I don’t wanna man up to it right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z White people were crazy back then, eighty years ago, when the story took place. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The schism was to last over eighty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The slope plummeted eighty feet, straight to the roof of an apartment complex built into the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Belgium absolutely will, Nathan. This is the new official plan. King Baudouin invited eighty Congolese leaders to Brussels to chart a course for independence.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in her eighties, she would walk several miles each day at a brisk pace. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Really great. He had a deal in the eighties.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve just had eighty years of pleasantly boring days,” she said, raising up on one elbow from the shady spot where she’d been sleeping. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Now, eighty years later, Navajos were making that same trip again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But what happens to the eighty pounds of man-made nitrogen that Naylor’s corn plants don’t take up? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For two hundred and eighty dollars a month. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This didn’t mean that twenty per cent of the people were free to rob the other eighty per cent of the means to live. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Their shorts were just as tiny in the eighties,” I argued. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z By following their runways she found seven nests and caught eighty furred young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Baggy as eighties disco, exactly. She wore those and gave me her jeans.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Try eighty meters, Pfennig. Typically teams won’t know what band to search. But for tonight, our first field test, we’ll cheat a bit.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “In your land, how many black people think about it that South and Central and North America contain over eighty million people of African descent?” he asked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay. See these papers here? They say we can buy eighty acres that Mr. Blake has next to the McKenzie property we bought.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no way we can get eighty pounds of fertilizer through that thing!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The debt rose from one hundred eighty dollars to eight hundred under him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not our fault! Agriculture uses eighty percent of the water!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Hill House itself, not sane, stood against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “A nickel makes eighty, a dime makes ninety, and another dime is one dollar.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As for a name, they have decided to let Ashima’s grandmother, who is past eighty now, who has named each of her other six great-grandchildren in the world, do the honors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It is cut short, in the same block style as the rest of the eighty girls, and makes her look like a young boy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But at eighty she has a voracious, knowing look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And a free- swimming one-celled amoeba is much more sophisticated; with about four hundred million bits in its DNA, it would require some eighty 500-page volumes to make another amoeba. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of Baba’s favorite quote from that eighties show he loves, The A-Team: “Pity the fools.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She can no longer chew, barely swallows, remembers and recognizes little of her eighty- odd years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And since I haven’t reached the recommended minimum age on the air-bag warning sticker, and since I barely weigh eighty pounds, I’m lucky he doesn’t force me into a booster seat. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There are more than eighty beds in this room the size of Maria's sitting room at home. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He did not weigh more than eighty pounds. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z After descending about eighty feet, I got back on reasonably solid ground. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For eighty of them, he suffered in bed as Americans followed daily reports about his health. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As the days marched along, burials rose in number, reaching eighty on September 17. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The next day I drove the same forty miles, eighty round-trip, and returned home with a large algebra textbook. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z ‘I somewhere between seventy and eighty year old.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Carvajal went on to achieve modest renown as a priest in Lima, dying peacefully at the age of eighty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Throughout the previous eighty days, he had kept a low profile. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “He’s nearly eighty,” I said, and added, “I leave the skiff at the slip now. It’s handier than the gut.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a poor country, in part because the United States maintained its trade embargo, and because the Soviet Union, once it collapsed in the late eighties, no longer provided financial subsidies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The outer parapet came up to her chin, but along the inner edge of the walk was nothing, nothing but a long plunge to the bailey seventy or eighty feet below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ninety minutes after the blast, ash began to rain down on Yakima, Washington, a community of fifty thousand people about eighty miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z After all, none of the children had been off the island in nearly eighty years, and Miss Peregrine couldn’t speak or fly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “His father’s settled his people at Oakenshield and will be back this afternoon with eighty fighting men. What did the bearded queen have to say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Bando said the temperature has been in the eighties by day and seventies by night. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dijksterhuis gave the test to eighty volunteers, flashing the car’s characteristics on a screen in front of them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z On the far shore, perhaps eighty yards away, Katz spied a continuation of trail and a white AT blaze. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Well, two years ago I planted thirty. I think there are about eighty now.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in 1985 it erupted again, though only to a height of eighty feet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The eighty men of the Connecticut 5th welcomed him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She felt eighty years old, worn out and weary and longing to die. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Two days after the storm, Frightful came down in a Florida sable palm and noted her global position again— eighty degrees longitude. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Even though she was in her eighties, she dressed like a fashion model. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Then”—Mom is laughing now—“there’s some sort of other number, some enzyme ratio level, that’s supposed to be between ten and thirty, and Jordan’s is one eighty!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z They met in a roil of water eighty miles wide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Our lot was eighty years of colonial rule,” she translated, and then she stopped. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a movie once where a woman was burned over eighty percent of her body and they had to wash all the dead skin off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The ground floor of the Wailing Tower was given over to storerooms and granaries, and two floors above housed part of the garrison, but the upper stories had not been occupied for eighty years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were as young as nineteen and as old as eighty. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It made her either four or eighty years old. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The copayments on her prescriptions came to about eighty dollars each month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “What goes through your mind when you wake up in the morning and hear the weather forecast is eighty and sunny?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I finished by looking at the art that Wojnarowicz made in the early eighties, which is joyful, playful, colorful, and imaginative. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z To watch the closing minutes of “II,” you’d swear you’re seeing the exact moment when the eighties emerged from the chrysalis of the late seventies. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Naturally, when Bowers began spilling the beans, in his late eighties, some people raised moral objections. A Hollywood Hedonist Turns Ninety-Five 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Well, the aggregated waiting list has skyrocketed from a few thousand names in the eighties to over a hundred and twenty thousand, and the average wait has grown from around one year to seven. The tragedy of American organ donations: So many more people could be saved 2014-03-23T14:00:00Z Imprisoned in the seventies and eighties for his involvement in the pro-democracy opposition movement, he began writing prolifically after his release. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z A woman in her eighties and in coma is lovingly encouraged to “get back to work.” Robin Williams’ last gift: His death is helping us talk about letting go of life with courage 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z On stage as a kid, he remained the same eager-to-please Andy in his eighties — crooning to his fans and their grandchildren, and reminding lovers of classic pop that mellow could be marvelous. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z Sometime in the second half of the eighties, when I was between ten and fifteen, I read a young-adult science-fiction novel called “Devil on My Back.” An Accidental Activist 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Back in the late eighties, records came to critics and radio people on plain cassette tapes or vinyl LPs. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z As the lead singer of Visage, Strange was a perfect embodiment of the early eighties dawn of the video age, and a forerunner of contemporary acts like Franz Ferdinand and Marina and the Diamonds. The most totally new wave music videos of all time 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s because what she was doing in the eighties was entirely D.I.Y.—self-produced and self-released. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They speculate that the majority of the subjects shown in the photos would be in their eighties or nineties now. The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Growing up in the eighties and nineties in Los Angeles, Malek felt that his name, Rami, “stuck out like a sore thumb,” he said. Walking Through the Whitney Museum with Rami Malek 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “I had expected to be in my eighties for longer. I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.” Postscript: James Salter, 1925-2015 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z “Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God,” she says, setting this particular section’s time, tone and intergenerational hostility. Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z It was like the setup of a righteous comedy from the eighties. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z There, and in “Miami Vice,” he just floated right into the eighties and things like “Smuggler’s Blues” like it was no problem at all. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Consider, for example, how the lives of ambitious high-school students changed when admissions offices started emphasizing extracurricular activities, in the eighties and nineties. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The book offers tips on how to approach meditation as a craft, interspersed with disappointingly PG stories of the music business in the eighties and nineties. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The soundtrack plays covers of eighties classics like “Where Is My Mind?,” by the Pixies, heightening the sense that time has come unmoored. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z And then, of course, there’s the beard—in twenty years, beards will seem like the leg warmers of the eighties.” Cover Story: Liniers’s “Hipster Stole” 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z By the eighties, Thomas, a member of the Reagan Administration, believed that state action could do nothing for African-Americans. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z She was a beat reporter, covering the Boston Celtics, in the eighties, then a writer for Sports Illustrated and a columnist for the Globe, and finally a columnist and writer for ESPN. Jackie MacMullan Is the Great Chronicler of Basketball’s Golden Age 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z Everyone says, “Thank God the eighties are over,” and I wonder if they say that about every decade. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Almanzo, Wilder’s husband, “was still doing chores at the age of eighty.” Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z I have to admit, I was born in the eighties and I discovered you through “The Muppet Show.” Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z During Cunningham’s early eighties, he ceased traveling with his company on most of its tours around America and the world. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z Middletown’s industrial jobs began to disappear in the seventies and eighties. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z In the Beijing salons of the eighties, Xiaobo was dependably provocative. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z He grew up in Washington Heights, in an apartment that, in the eighties and early nineties, doubled as a clubhouse for hard-drinking Soviet émigré writers and artists. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z In the early eighties, the “photo surfer” came to the fore—you earned your sponsorship dollars not by doing well in contests but by appearing in the magazines and videos. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z About eighty arrests were made without fuss on drug charges, and 400 were treated for "bad trips". From the archive, 19 August 1969: Grooving on the sounds 2010-08-19T10:27:00Z My wife, Naomi, and I were having lunch at Ibon’s apartment, in Madrid, on a day off during a tour, and he was playing us Peacock’s albums from the eighties. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It was a typical response to Bouton, who died on Wednesday, at the age of eighty. Jim Bouton Was Baseball’s Misunderstood Evangelist 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z He had agreed to talk to me about a piece I was writing on the Black Rock Coalition, an organization he co-founded in the eighties. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Bond and Mellman joined forces in San Francisco in the late eighties, and concocted the act one night when Bond was sick and needed an excuse to sound like an old person. Kiki and Herb Make America Great Again 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In the early eighties, Crimmins moved to Boston and started a comedy show at a Chinese restaurant called the Ding Ho. Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In the eighties and early nineties, music journalists often considered too much spectacle a distraction, or evidence of something prefabricated and therefore inauthentic. Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” Wanted Us to Dance Away Our Differences 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z After decades of disuse, the term was repopularized in the seventies and eighties by people of color and queer communities—this time as a gesture of defiance. The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Colette started writing in her early twenties, and by the time she died, in 1954, at the age of eighty-one, she had published nearly eighty works: fiction, memoir, essays, drama, and collected journalism. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Bellow’s own biographer mused, after the publication of “Ravelstein,” “Who are the other great writers who have done anything like this in their eighties?” What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Twin Peaks: The Return” will run eighteen hours—a thousand and eighty minutes, or about ten times the length of a usual feature film. “Twin Peaks: The Return” and the Search for David Lynch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The correct response to any questions regarding Bill Cosby’s legacy, or any future enjoyment of a family-friendly sitcom from the eighties is this: It doesn’t matter. How not to talk about Bill Cosby: This week’s edition 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z I suppose Mrs. Wharton knows her Maupassant thoroughly; but unless I am quite at fault, it was not in the early seventies, but in the early eighties, that his tales began to appear. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Just listen to how he elongates “lazy” and “eighties” and try not singing along, too. Review | Fresh off a Grammy win and still No. 1 on the charts, Roddy Ricch rides high at 9:30 Club 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The Atlanta Braves retired their mascot Chief Noc-A-Homa in the eighties — although he’s been known to reappear from time to time. Scott Walker makes it harder to fight racist team names 2013-12-20T19:36:00Z “This Is It” was mostly old hits, though the title track was “new,” Jackson’s demo of a song written with Paul Anka in the early eighties. In Search of the Sweet, Melodic Michael Jackson 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z I have probably conducted more than twenty thousand interviews in my life, but I remember the first time I interviewed Apuzzo over the phone, in the late eighties. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Especially in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, the tech sector demanded a utilitarian plainness, an ostentatious unpretentiousness, in its products—values that Apple rejected. Apple at Forty: Steve Jobs Led Us to the Fourth Dimension 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z At some point in the eighties I published an essay-length history of American atheism that unearthed the stream of working-class atheism from which I was descended. Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer 2014-04-12T12:15:00Z Like a lot of people back then, I was fascinated by U.F.O.s—in the late eighties and early nineties, alien abduction was a thing. A Return to the Nostalgia of “The X-Files” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z By the eighties, however, individual comic books were being republished, five or six at a time, in a trade-paperback format. The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Back in the eighties, there was a woman watching “Dyketactics” in San Francisco, at the Larkin Theatre, sitting behind me, and she started crying. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z One track reworks “Love You Down,” an eighties hit by Ready for the World, retaining the intimacy of the original but deconstructing the melody to create something new and abstract. In 2016, How to Dress Well Gets Happy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Despite such objections, he reportedly made a fortune in the eighties by distributing so-called “session videos,” recordings of photo shoots that then veered into more recreational activities. The Obsessive Photographer Behind America’s First Gay Magazine 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The sharing of this idea ran in the family: His mom, my grandmother, once announced that sex with my grandfather kept getting better, right into their eighties. How to stay obsessed and enamored: The best way to save a marriage is sex 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z One hundred and eighty years after his birth, 128 years after his ruckus with the Royal Society, it would be pleasing if his career would settle down. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z If I post a picture and it gets eighty thousand likes, that’s a failure. The Most Famous Dog in the World on Instagram 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z I joined the Navy in the late eighties, at a time when the military was still considered, in some respects, to be a get-well program for wayward souls. This Week in Fiction: Will Mackin on Life In and Out of the Military 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z One, in his eighties, reclined in a wheelchair, wearing a nylon tracksuit; the other, in his thirties, sported chambray and skinny jeans, cuffed to expose bare ankles. Hannah Goldfield: Russ & Daughters Café and Black Seed Bagels 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z As hip-hop established itself as a cultural force, in the late eighties and the nineties, the desire to myth-make in visual terms grew stronger, more conceptual. How Hip-Hop Learned to Pose for the Camera 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z While the song must be considered a work of juvenilia, it does at least explain why eighties metal seems to lurk beneath the surface of so many of today’s pop hits. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Last Friday, Fonda, who turned eighty in December, was sitting in a publicity office, wearing mod-ish pants, a black turtleneck, and a chain necklace that she occasionally fondled. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z His music always reminded me of the summers and winter breaks I spent there in the late eighties and early nineties; it was a constant presence on I.C.R.T. Listening to George Michael in Taiwan 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “Professor in his late seventies sounded rather admirable,” Noah thinks, “but professor in his eighties?” Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Mary Tyler Moore, who died today, at the age of eighty, meant a lot to all of us; for feminists who remember the seventies, she was a member of the family. Postscript: Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z All of which points to their odd status in today’s saturated world of music information, where her eighties records have somehow retained both the ability to surprise and to disappear. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Growing up in Manhattan in the eighties, I loved the TV commercials for the electronics chain “Crazy Eddie.” Remembering Crazy Eddie: His Prices Were Insane 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Rebellion, a group of black filmmakers, centered around U.C.L.A. in the nineteen-seventies and early eighties, whose films have enduringly marked the history of cinema. The Cinematic Blues of Charles Burnett and Billy Woodberry 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z There are very real gaps in the streaming catalogue, and Annette Peacock’s brave records from the eighties have been swallowed by one. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z My little studio sits on just five acres in the “suburban bush,” eighty miles farther from the mountains, and only a dozen miles from downtown Fairbanks. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Aznavour’s career spanned nearly eighty years, at least a thousand songs, three hundred albums, dozens of tours, and many, many films. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “In the eighties, it was a lot of disco and Donna Summer and KC and the Sunshine Band,” Missett said. Jazzercise Is Immortal 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “I know I still have lots of room to improve, but that’s what I like about it, and I intend to keep rapping into my eighties, in between building new software.” Meet the ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ rapper accused of laundering billions of dollars in crypto 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z After all, for a few generations, in the eighties and nineties, MTV was where one turned to access difference. The Trouble with “White People” 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Sitcoms also work, like “Frasier” or “Friends”; occasionally, an old eighties movies is on, like “The Craft” or “Mannequin,” which is always a treat. Watching TV at the Gym 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Throughout the eighties, Vaginal Davis developed multiple personas and performed incongruous identities. The “Terrorist Drag” of Vaginal Davis 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z But Matthew Horton has a killer reason for including this raucous Beach Boys live show at the dawn of the eighties. Are these the best concert films of all time? 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z For many gay men coming of age in the eighties and nineties, “Maurice” was revelatory: a first glimpse, onscreen or anywhere, of what love between men could look like. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But even fans of that wiggy early period of Peacock tend to be ignorant of her records from the eighties. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z I was raised in an affluent, white, status-conscious, highly anxious family, in the eighties and early nineties, but without anything like the attention children experience today. How to Grant Your Child an Inner Life 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The north-south axis was to run from a gigantic train station, in the south, through an enormous victory arch and culminate at a three-hundred-and-twenty-metre-high dome able to accommodate a hundred and eighty thousand people. The Complicated Architecture of Albert Speer, Jr. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The last time that Earth was five degrees warmer was three million years ago, when sea level was about eighty feet higher. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z In his eighties, as a radio DJ, he was still playing the sounds he loved and nurtured. Johnny Otis, the Greek Godfather of R&B, Dies at 90 2012-01-19T22:30:12Z I handed him the receipt, mentioned that I was the guy with the relic camera from the eighties. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z They would not allow themselves, but Helen was eighty, Sylvia seventy-eight. Allegra Goodman: “Apple Cake.” 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Smith offers a dry, but emphatically structural account of this process, which he first theorized in the late eighties with Soho and the Lower East Side in mind. Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z “The mouse turned,” she said, as one of the boys grabbed his own shoulder and pivoted his body a hundred and eighty degrees, “and I killed!” Princely Duties at “The Nutcracker” 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z None of Peacock’s albums from the eighties are in print on any physical format, nor are they available on the major streaming platforms. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z One poem talks about “the martyrs, the Malcolms,/ And Kings and Fred Hamptons,” and later of being “less than eighty miles/From where Nat Turner dug a hole and lay/ For weeks.” Review: ‘Bastards of the Reagan Era,’ a Book of Poetry 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Nike, still a relative upstart in the eighties, became a leading sneaker outfit when it signed Michael Jordan, in 1984. How Fila Snuck Back Into Favor 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Then she drove on to the mini-mart—in his eighties, Hall crashed his car twice, before surrendering his license—to buy him breakfast and a Boston Globe. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z At the end of the nineteen-forties, Egypt was still home to around eighty thousand Jews, many of them educated and prosperous. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z With this album, Elliott was thinking beyond impulses like realism, which defined the rap of the eighties and the gangsta rap of the early nineties, and materialism, which preoccupied the new black conglomerate class. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z And I now live in a world where my friends are in their eighties and nineties—I am still the “young man.” Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z There’s something else about these eighties albums of Annette Peacock that hid them from our post-punk view, however: they belong to no particular genre. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z As the story went, a young man in his thirties was beginning a game against woman in her eighties. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z These turned into his 2010 début, “Love Remains,” a subdued and ghostly assemblage that used eighties and nineties R. & B. like radio static. In 2016, How to Dress Well Gets Happy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z In his eighties he remained more consistently creative than any other great composer before him, even Verdi. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z In the late eighties in New York, racial tension built slowly to a burn, following racially motivated violence in places like Howard Beach. Music and 2014: Everyday Messiahs 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Weekly in the eighties, a time when the city’s public image was all bikinis and mansions and its reality was racist police violence and extreme wealth disparity. Jonathan Gold Was Proof That Local Journalism Matters 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z As a child, in the eighties, she often tagged along with her father, a local promoter specializing in gospel and R. & B., as he put up posters around town. Valerie June’s Music Is a Reminder That Life Goes On 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The climactic scene of “Heathers” speaks to its liminal position between the eighties and the nineties. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z His poems were a powerful influence, and I can still recite some of them eighty years after I first read them. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z In the eighties, Bailey returned to the Silvertown docks - where the exhibition is taking place - to record the area before much of it was levelled for redevelopment. In pictures: David Bailey's East End 2012-07-06T06:56:27Z All night, the singers were engaged, energetic, in the moment, performing seventies and eighties Bowie faithfully but without approaching camp. David Bowie, Celebrated by His Friends 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The nationwide drug and crime epidemics of the eighties devastated large segments of the community, affecting the area’s youth in particular. A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Lupus, the autoimmune disease that later killed her, frequently confined O’Connor to her mother Regina’s dairy and farm, eighty miles from Atlanta, and her illness made the exchange of letters even more important to her. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z He grew up poor, in a shotgun shack that his father, Vernon, built himself, after borrowing a hundred and eighty dollars to purchase the materials. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z We’ve reached a point where directors and audiences no longer derive authenticity from what looks “real” but from what looked real in seventies, eighties, and nineties blockbusters. Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In the eighties, it was run by a new owner, Sam Palmer, a father of two, who purchased the fair after having a spiritual experience. In Search of “The Lost Arcade” 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z But, as an account of nascent eighties decadence the novel remains one of the most enjoyable texts I’ve ever read. Revisiting Judith Krantz’s “Scruples,” a Novel with a Passion for Clothes 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The dancers are accompanied by an orchestra that incorporates Chinese instruments; each troupe includes about eighty people. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Breathed’s Pulitzer-winning strip — a slice of social commentary viewed through the human and animal characters of small town America — was a beloved piece of essential daily reading in its eighties heyday. “Bloom County” returns, thanks to … Donald Trump? 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Which might be why, when I ask knowledgeable music friends now what impression they have of her eighties records, they give wildly different responses. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z For pop-culture enthusiasts of the seventies and eighties, reports of the death of Burt Reynolds, at age eighty-two, of a heart attack, in Jupiter, Florida, may have come as an unexpected shock. The Friendly, Sexy Stardom of Burt Reynolds 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The trailer, though just eighty seconds long, is packed with nostalgic touchstones—a kind of greatest-hits collection that even people who stopped thinking about “Star Wars” years ago would recognize. Hopeful Signs for the “Star Wars” Do-Over 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Some of these men and women are in their eighties, the youngest in their forties and fifties. International Booker authors named 2013-01-24T13:58:05Z In the eighties, as other circus arts were catching on as recreational pursuits, Club Med had the brilliant idea of slipping the trapeze into their usual resort smorgasbord. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z But someone beat them to the punch, about eighty years ago. The Trumpian Origins of New York’s Floating Billboard Problem 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Her last tour sold two and a half million tickets, at an average price, in the U.S., of three hundred and eighty dollars. The Book on Taylor Swift 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z On Monday, the poet Les Murray, one of Australia’s “national living treasures,” died, at the age of eighty. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Saw Bladerunner in a large West End cinema in the early eighties. 'I was terrified!': you share stories of watching classic films on first release 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z I went to a painting academy in the eighties and was deeply involved in academy-style painting, so humor publications were not on my radar. Harry Bliss’s “Out in the Cold” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z They cared about the ideals of the late seventies and eighties—the blockbuster era. The George Awakens 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z “In your eighties you are invisible. Nearing ninety you hope nobody sees you.” Review | Donald Hall’s parting gift: Essays on aging and not always gracefully 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The new record is a familiar mix of their brand of disco meets funk and hip-hop, with more than a smattering of eighties balladeers Halls and Oates. Chromeo 'trying to work all angles' 2014-02-03T07:44:42Z Liang Long, who grew up in a rural village in Dongbei in the seventies and eighties, first heard Western rock music when a friend returned from Beijing with a Guns N’ Roses videotape. Reinventing Alternative Rock in China 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Whereas his brother satirized the cultural desolation of the eighties as a forlorn outsider, Einstein mocked it by inhabiting its greatest excesses. Super Dave, in Memoriam: Bob Einstein’s Mass-Culture Parody 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Alkhanshali is trapped in the country with “the best beans grown in Yemen in eighty years” — unable to book passage to a crucial trade show in Seattle. Review | Dave Eggers tells the story of the most dangerous cup of coffee in the world 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z This was so surprising to Don he remembered it eighty years later. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z In a way, Amy is to millennials what Madonna was to women in the eighties—proof that you can be smart, political, funny, and aggressively sexual, all at the same time.” “Saturday Night Live” and the good-feminist wars: What “SNL” alum Nora Dunn gets wrong about Amy Schumer’s raunchy humor 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z We knew that we needed investors, and the competition was fierce—scads of magazines were launched in the eighties. Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Nichols complains that he saw “The Graduate” in the late eighties, right after he completed the television production of “Angels in America,” and found it “surrealistic,” like the adaptation of Tony Kushner’s play. A Lovingly Obsessive Tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Viewed from the distance of eighty years, the tone of the coverage seems, to Schneidermann, woefully insufficient. The Moral Failings of American Press Coverage of Nazi Germany 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z I was listening to a friend of mine, who is really one of my spiritual mentors, and she's in her late eighties, but she's so vibrant and such a wonderful woman of faith. True meaning of Christmas and the joy of faith: How to reach out to others 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Beginning in the eighties, many colleges adopted codes of civility in order to protect a diversity of viewpoints and insure that campus conversations honored academic freedom. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The remaining members carried on in the eighties and nineties, playing in front of diminishing crowds, performing songs that made money for the guy who was no longer there. Robbie Robertson Offers His Story of the Band 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It describes two forces that began warping New York City in the early eighties, neither of them musical, and it elegantly explains how a period of artistic flourishing was squashed. When Rent Was Cheap and Dance Music Reigned 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Screenwriters in the eighties transformed a rising divorce rate into fodder for films like “The Lost Boys,” in which mom’s new suitor is a vampire. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Also, in the eighties I did a bunch of projects in Japan just for the money. David Foster, the Godfather of Schmaltz 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z In the seventies, early eighties, and, frankly, ever since, Bryan Ferry set the standard for suave crooning. Cultural Clicks: Caitlyn Jenner's Predecessors, Bryan Ferry's New Video 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z When Aaron came home, I showed him the email I'd printed and read eighty times. The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z During this period, and through the eighties, the war on drugs, despite all of Washington’s lip service, was a secondary concern. The Missing Story of the Drug War 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He carried it with him as he moved from house to house in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z A former director of Cardiff City football club, Stennett continued performing into his eighties, most notably in pantomime. Entertainer Stan Stennett dies at 88 2013-11-26T15:15:46Z Brunch was already a punchline about yuppie excess back in the eighties. Leave brunch alone! 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z I will never forget the experience, in the eighties, of picking up Volume I of Johnson. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z An experienced tabulation clerk could process eighty punch cards per minute. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z In the eighties, he began a decades-long association with Storm King Art Center, where many of his sculptures are installed. Will Los Angeles Lose a Beloved Piece of Public Art? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In a similarly ironic twist, the same address was also the original home of Spy, a satirical publication founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, in the eighties. Harry Bliss’s “Out in the Cold” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z All the techniques that became the main animatronic techniques of the eighties and nineties, all that was really developed for “The Dark Crystal.” "Dark Crystal" director on working puppet magic: "You have to imagine bringing life to everything" 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The photographer William Christenberry, who died last week, at the age of eighty, was often described as a chronicler of a decaying American South. “I’m Very Much in Love with Where I’m From”: William Christenberry’s American South 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z But eighty per cent of them were themselves Khmer Rouge, and if they instead had been asked to be perpetrators the overwhelming majority would have obeyed. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z As my mother has passed through certain age milestones—sixty-five, seventy, seventy-five, eighty—she’s described the experience as surreal; the numbers don’t at all reflect how she feels inside. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The groundwork for a song like “Suggestion” was laid in the eighties by women who were discussing gender-based violence in academic papers, zines, songs, and in protests on college campuses. Music and 2014: Everyday Messiahs 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Yet Ivanka is so much better at the Trump pitch than her brothers, who, even when they’re not hunting for animals in Africa, seem like villains from an eighties teen film. The R.N.C. on TV: Ivanka’s Weaponized Graciousness 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Then I called my mother, who is in her late eighties and lives alone, in Kansas City, in a retirement community near a shopping area called the Country Club Plaza. My Mother and Her Scammer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z He kept up a furious touring schedule, some two hundred dates a year well into his eighties. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Busby and his partner became H.I.V. positive in the early eighties. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Granger had an eye for design, and decked out the restaurant in the minimalist style that was beginning to supersede eighties rococo. The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Martha Cooper, a New York photojournalist, obsessively took photos of dancers and graffiti writers in the early eighties, fearful that this subculture “might disappear” before anyone knew it. How Hip-Hop Learned to Pose for the Camera 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In all, sixteen of the twenty previous three-time nominees won an Oscar, yielding eighty percent odds that Cooper will eventually win based solely on past precedent. This One Statistic Shows Why Bradley Cooper Could Win Best Actor at the Oscars 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z A Nielsen BookScan sales report reveals that eighty sales of “Wasted” have been “Recorded to Date,” which is dataspeak for “since the book was published.” Good Luck Finding a Copy of Mark Judge’s “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk” 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z The late eighties and early nineties were the darkest, most precarious years of my life. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z They discovered that their colleagues in the eighties had been on the right track: the policy worked after all. The Trouble with Crime Statistics 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z In the late eighties, a small community of talented, sludgy local bands began attracting attention in the Pacific Northwest. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Her Guggenheim show, of some eighty pieces—sculpture, reliefs, and collages—was titled “Infinite Possibility.” Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z All of these stories, whether they’re from the thirties or the eighties, are being presented in a new, streamlined format that’s a pleasure to read. A Summer in the New Yorker Archive 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z I don’t think I really even thought about shooting much other than 35-mm. until the eighties, when I started doing sports. Photographing Impeachment Proceedings Against Three Presidents 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z This has been the question animating me for a couple of years, as I’ve tried to write a novel from the perspective of a man in his late eighties. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Or you could read the reëmbrace of practical tools as the freedom from restraint: the director dove headfirst into the computer and ultimately found it as limiting as the tools of the eighties. Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “Seventies. Into the eighties,” said Mr. Farris, who has a salesman’s chatty ebullience. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Ruby Lorraine Feagan began perfecting her pie recipes in the early eighties. Top 10 Places for Pie in Texas 2010-11-24T19:21:00Z As noted above, the neoliberal period began around the seventies, and truly took off in the eighties, long after radical movements had dissipated. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I had expected to be in my eighties for longer. Postscript: James Salter, 1925-2015 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z In Manchester, the play was performed in a deconsecrated church that held about two hundred and eighty people. Putting the Mud in 'Macbeth' 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Since her emergence in the late eighties and early nineties, Lucas has fashioned unforgettable representations of the body from unlikely objects. The Animal and the Edible in Sarah Lucas’s Self-Portraits 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In the Haiti of the nineteen-seventies and early eighties, the violence was overtly political. Michael Brown, Abner Louima, and the Anguish of Police Brutality 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z He’s in his eighties, so who can blame him? Chasing Ennio Morricone: Our family’s race across an ocean and against the clock to see the concert of a lifetime 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z And then she stepped out and put slide to strings, and the last traces of eighties synthesized glam were banished by the low snake moan of the electric slide guitar. Bonnie Raitt and the Fugitive Emotions Evoked by Slide Guitar 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z In the late eighties, before the first tech bubble, Judge worked as an electrical engineer in Santa Clara, designing graphics cards. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In hindsight, I think if the temperature had been merely eighty degrees, as opposed to ninety-two in the shade, it would have been fine. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z James Lipton, of the American interview series “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” saw the survey administered on “Apostrophes” in the eighties and was entranced. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Irma turned eighty on the day that the vote was taken to confirm Thomas. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The shop’s supply met the demands of local clotheshorses in the nineteen-seventies and eighties. Tender Buttons, a One-of-a-Kind New York Institution, Closes Shop 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Vert and street crawled on after the collapse of the sport’s popularity in the late eighties, while freestyle seemingly vanished. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z One such story is “Mlle. Dias de Corta,” which appears among the stories of the eighties and nineties in a new reissue of “The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant,” which was first published in 1996. Mavis Gallant’s Magic Tricks 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “I was thirty years old, it was the end of the eighties, I remember having wanted to change the direction of the iconography, to look toward the future rather than the past,” he wrote. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Advocates estimate that eighty thousand people are currently housed in solitary confinement, though the difficulty of tracking confined populations means that the number may be larger. Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Nineteen eighty was a year of hope for conservatives in America, but it was a hope diminished by decades of consistent failure at the grass roots. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The man I wanted to be if I ever grew up, because he made people laugh while he told them the truth, which, back in the late eighties and early nineties, was still a novelty. Garry Shandling’s Benevolent Spirit 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z “The Da Vinci Code,” after all, has sold more than eighty million copies. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It turns out that as the human race has extended life well into our eighties and nineties, we have also turned away from facing death. Dying is never easy: Assisted suicide doesn’t necessarily help us have a “good death” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z She spoke of her mother, “who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life. And, in her eighties, she said to me, ‘I feel I haven’t accomplished anything.’ The 2019 Golden Globes Recap: A Thankful Sandra Oh and a Mighty Glenn Close 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z There was a time—say, the late eighties and nineties—when it seemed that every young composer in America wanted to be Torke. The Sheer Joy of Listening to American Minimalism 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z “Looker,” at a hundred and eighty pages, lasts about as long as a movie, and not even half as long as a full night’s sleep. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z My friend Paul Taylor, who was the Dungeon Master for many campaigns I participated in during the eighties, went on to found two successful technology companies, the second of which was acquired by Google. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z In 2013, realizing that her husband was dying, Caland, who was over eighty and afflicted with health problems of her own, returned to Beirut to say goodbye. The Playful Provocations (and Erotic Kaftans) of the Lebanese Artist Huguette Caland 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z But that changed in 2014, with a film in Pawlikowski’s native Polish, one that was eighty minutes long but still made time for moody silences. How an 80-Minute Polish Film in Black and White Became a Breakout Hit 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Sophie, an artist herself, began painting with gouaches in the early eighties, unaware that her great-grandfather had used the same ones. A Morning at MOMA with Sophie Matisse 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Graffiti no longer represents the menace it did in the seventies and eighties. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Her worthless movies of the seventies and eighties are not really held against her. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z And this was a very common perception on behalf of law enforcement in the mid/late eighties. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z Both pieces brought the hammer down at eighty million dollars, but a recent rejiggering of Christie’s fees gave “Rabbit” the edge. How Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” Became Big Game 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z For average kids ignorant of the evils in plastics, fossil fuels, and chlorofluorocarbons, the eighties were a time of optimism about technology and progress. Jackson Heights, Roller Skates 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z As for Michael Jordan, he has been seared into my brain since the first time I saw him, in the eighties. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z In a catalogue essay that accompanies the show, Helen Molesworth, who sat in on Farber’s lectures in the eighties, describes his screening of Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets.” Termite Art and the Modern Museum 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z But Alan had never felt in danger anywhere, and his assignments had taken him to Juarez in the nineties, Guatemala in the eighties. A Hologram for the King – extract 2013-01-26T21:00:02Z And for those of us who embarked on our sexual lives in the eighties, sex always carried with it the risk of death. Here’s what Magic Johnson’s done, Donald Sterling 2014-05-13T14:15:00Z Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian As for the alternative, the early eighties in the capital boasted a fertile club scene. 1980s throwback: clubland's charming impact on fashion examined at V&A 2013-07-08T15:13:42Z There was my Uncle Frank who was epileptic and had what today we call Down syndrome and had lived into his eighties. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z There was no real cognitive dissonance existing in the minds of most people in the Soviet Union of the nineteen-seventies and eighties. Life Under Alternative Facts 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z I recently watched a bunch of episodes from the seventies and eighties, and journeyed, via the magic hanging screen he called Picture Picture, to a Crayola factory. How Mr. Rogers Became Everyone’s Neighbor 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z I think we saw through the eighties and nineties a lot more convenient miscarriage plotlines. LISTEN: Abortion comes of age on TV, from “Maude” to “Jane the Virgin” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z My parents enjoyed passionate sex until shortly before they died in their eighties. When the Cause of a Sexless Relationship Is — Surprise! — the Man 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Oliver makes his dish with shrimp, angel hair pasta and red pesto, which, when you think about it, makes it a meal that would be very at home in the eighties. Make this rosé bucatini for the wine mom in your life 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It drew from his work at the Village Voice, where he had initially been hired, in the late eighties, to help the alternative weekly cover black music. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z I have never heard a huger howl of laughter than when seeing this at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in the mid eighties. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It was as if he had eighty years of living already in him, at the age of twenty-two. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z His mother, now in her eighties and one of his keenest critics, will still listen to anything. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z Dixie Outfitters is a part of this minority, and its company website includes a history section with over eighty links to information about black Confederates. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z The first part of that equation is indisputable: beginning in the early 1960s violent crime in this country began rising and continued to rise throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z He’s left the state of Victoria few times in his almost eighty years. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the eighties, nineties, and aughts, it was a source of pride: the multiculturalist ethos had us identitying with our cultures. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Many miles away, on a South Dakota reservation where the unemployment rate nears eighty per cent, another young man is shown being placed under arrest. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Skating’s fame in the eighties was unprecedented; never before had skaters graced magazine covers or landed speaking roles in teen movies. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “I literally took what I learned in trash television in the eighties as a journalist and fused it with pretentious theories and storytelling.” The Documentary “Bitter Lake” Remixes the BBC 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The relationship between Ruth and Debbie remains the site of the show’s only sustained seriousness; in the main, the new season of “GLOW” deepens its commitment to presenting a camp eighties pageant. The New Season of “GLOW” Is Proudly Defiant in Presenting a Camp Eighties Pageant 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z In 2007, they put eighty college students in a room and asked them to complete a series of arithmetic problems. After “Lean In,” the road to workplace equality 2013-09-17T11:43:00Z The deindustrialization of the postwar years became flagrant on the street as the eighties progressed. What Public Life Used to Look Like in San Francisco’s Mission District 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Last year, he set another round mark, becoming the first person over the age of eighty to run a marathon in under four hours. Remembering Ed Whitlock, the Marathoner Who Was Still Breaking Records at Eighty-Five 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z She took up singing full-time while studying in Boston in the early eighties, drawing notice first for her precisely expressive accounts of Bach cantatas at Emmanuel Church, under the direction of Craig Smith. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Sixty-six years old, Rajagopal presides over an empire of eighty Saravana Bhavan restaurants worldwide, many of them in his native India, and has inspired a following thanks to high standards, generous employee compensation, and philanthropy. Weekend Reading: Gay Men and American Food; Debunking the Phineas Gage Myth & More 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z The eighties: the Queen of Onion Soup Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘In the 80s, I started restaurant reviewing. This was a time of raspberry vinegar, kiwi with everything and pureed vegetables – food for very indulged babies.’ Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z I figure I’ve painted him eighty or so times in the past few years, which sounds like a lot, but somehow it’s actually left me with many blissfully Trump-free days. Barry Blitt’s “Thumbs-Up” 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Now eighty, Hunter is living in Sunnyside, Queens, with her partner of thirty-nine years. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The flight to Exuma was just eighty minutes on Thursday morning, on an airline called Swift. The Fyre Festival Was a Luxury Nightmare 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “Balboa” was an unexpected hit at the box office, and so what was there to do except revive his other eighties franchise character, Rambo, for his own belated sequel/meditation on aging? A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z That was back in the eighties and we met lots of nice young people from all over the world. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z It is a very granular, and at times bewildering, account of the music and dance-club scenes in Berlin from the eighties on. Big Bang in Berlin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The field of comics has changed tremendously in the intervening eighty years. Eyeball Kicks: Jules Feiffer’s Glory Years 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Still, when Parker was a kid growing up in Virginia in the eighties, he didn’t learn about Turner in school. The Rebirth of a Nation 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z But in the eighties, back when we were growing up, it seemed as if this whole black/white thing was way down on the to-do list, somewhere below “Fix Levees in New Orleans.” My one black friend 2012-07-04T16:00:00Z Bright colors and protective hardware vanished, and wheels shrunk to almost half the size of their eighties counterparts. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The show looks like it’s about the eighties—but, Joshua Rothman explains, it taps into older, weirder American myths. The 2018 Emmy Nominees in The New Yorker 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Wolf got his start in the late seventies as a rock songwriter before finding success as a pop and R. & B. producer in the eighties. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z A younger generation in Spain sees the political pacts of the seventies and early eighties as the original sin of the country’s new democratic order. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The Pearl Harbor attack against the United States was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at 7:48 a.m. local time, eighty years ago to this day. Pearl Harbor's 80th anniversary: Veterans share why America must 'unite' today 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Experimental music is now a genre, she writes, and one finds songs from the eighties and nineties bundled indiscriminately and sold as a product called The Past. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Sandberg’s TED talk, even more explicitly than her book, posited the revolutionary potential of women’s empowerment at the highest levels: of a hundred and eighty heads of state, she noted, only nine were women. Sheryl Sandberg’s “Option B” and Facebook’s Way to Grieve Book Review 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley in the eighties and nineties, and there were things as a teen-ager that I found really frustrating about political correctness. The True and False Virtues of the Left 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z For anyone counting on being alive and kicking in their seventies, eighties, or beyond, director Michael Haneke’s film is quite the reality check. Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z Saling’s motivations arose, in part, from her memories of the gaming conventions she attended throughout the eighties, where the people who sat down for role-playing games with her apparently had no stake in her discomfort. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Zmuda concedes that Kaufman came out to him, and that he was aware that his friend haunted San Francisco’s Castro district in the early eighties. The Belief That Andy Kaufman Is Alive 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In the eighties, I was able to see a very early work of his. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Throughout the eighties, you experimented wildly with genre, everything from Puccini to the Great American Songbook to Mexican canciones. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Yes: on the medieval ecclesiastical calendar, food intake was restricted in one way or another for more than a hundred and eighty days per year. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z For two and a half decades, from the eighties into the aughts, Rupp traversed the United States, with her camera, lingering in rural towns. Two and a Half Decades Observing Life in Rural America 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The political crisis of the eighties and nineties pales in comparison to what Venezuela is going through right now. 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Slide Show Poetry: The Islanders Move to Brooklyn 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Anne died at age 49 on August 1, 1714; unfortunately, Sophia, already in her eighties, had died less than two months earlier from a stroke as she dashed for shelter from a storm. 10 royal heirs who died before they reigned 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Recently, almost eighty years after the fact, Fitzgerald’s grandchildren found the story in his archives. The New Yorker Publishes F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Previously Rejected in 1936j 2012-07-31T18:07:57Z I was in New York in the eighties and the nineties. Jane Curtin Is Playing It Straight 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z More than eighty per cent of American librarians are women, but for two hundred years the role of Librarian of Congress was filled exclusively by white men. Carla Hayden Takes Charge of the World’s Largest Library 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z As a teenager in the eighties, I lived through raging debates over what, exactly, that sound was, and what made a band punk or synth or new romantic or power pop or new wave. The most totally new wave music videos of all time 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z They are accompanied by videos that are so cheesy, so embarrassingly eighties, you wonder what on earth the people who made them could have been thinking. Back off, haters! Hall & Oates rule 2013-12-17T19:54:00Z Erwitt, now in his late eighties, has always been an entertainer. Elliott Erwitt’s Visual One-Liners 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s been said that we love the “S.N.L.” we grew up with best, and I watched those sketches in afternoon reruns in the eighties, a time less removed from the nineteenth century. “Saturday Night Live” Celebrates Itself 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z He also became a staple of German radio, where he wrote and delivered more than eighty educational and literary programs between 1929 and 1932. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z I must have first read this book in the early eighties, and found it – like a lot of Sacks’s writing – absolutely fascinating. 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Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z As a 50-year old I can recall with huge fondness the anticipation of each series made during the golden years stretching through the sixties and up to the eighties. Thunderbirds guru Anderson dies 2012-12-27T09:57:48Z Jackson’s great seventies and eighties albums—“Look Sharp!,” Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He is a former associate of the streetwear pioneer Shawn Stussy, whose work from the eighties onward embodied a Zeitgeist originating in the surf culture of Southern California. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z With a budget of ten million dollars and eighty employees, L.T.I. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z By these and other means, by the end of 1770 he claimed, in one area alone, eighty square miles. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z They immerse the viewer in the unreconstructed New York of the era between the Fun City nineteen-sixties and the land-grab madness of the eighties. When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z “If that can change him—and he’s almost eighty, and my dad—I really think that there’s a lot of room for this film to impact a lot of people.” “Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z She returned to art in her eighties, and now she is making one masterpiece after another. Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The researchers were struck by the impact of regular physical exercise during the 2000-2011 period, when the volunteers were aged in their seventies or eighties. Daily exercise as beneficial to health in old age as quitting smoking, study finds 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z They also created a template for the Max Martin sound, which combines ABBA’s pop chords and textures, Denniz PoP’s song structure and dynamics, eighties arena rock’s big choruses, and early-nineties American R. & B. grooves. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, Peacock made four albums in the eighties, and each could easily have ended up in a different part of the store. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In the eighties, at the peak of my rebellious years, the baton was delivered to some bland apparatchik whom I perceived as my exact enemy. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Some of them are going in their eighties. Reading his way through the pandemic: "Not being able to go to the library has been disappointing" 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z She had seven songs that were in the late eighties, early nineties, which all went to number one. “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The story closes with a call to imagine a new version of Bob James’s famous theme tune to “Taxi,” the television show that aired in the late seventies and early eighties. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z There is, however, a publication that Schneidermann, eighty years later, believes achieved the right balance: the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The Moral Failings of American Press Coverage of Nazi Germany 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Seymour is in his eighties and plum shaped, with a turtle-like pate and a neat cap of white hair. Ethan Hawke’s Life-Changing Music Lesson 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The abbey at Monte Cassino is situated atop a rocky hill about eighty miles south of Rome and was founded in 529 by St. Benedict of Nursia. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z |
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