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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Reagan-era nostalgia playing well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The 1970s and 1980s hungered for the 1950s and 1960s ("Happy Days," "Back to the Future," "The Wonder Years"), and the 1990s for the 1970s ("The Brady Bunch Movie," "That 70s Show"). |
 | | These pop-culture tidbits are presented as happy nostalgia, and embedded in them are the politics of the age, the always implicit notion that somehow yesterday -- in this case, the '80s -- was better. |
 | | "It's almost looking back at a Western," she says, "You're still enjoying the fact that there is the drama and the conflict, but you still know in the end that civilization is going to win." |
| www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/08/reagan_era_nostalgia_playing_well?pg=2 (478 words) |
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