![]() There were different allegiances now - to movements and causes, to sex and sedition. By the 1970s, that energy had long since faded. The 20th century had begun as the “century of the child” with a new emphasis on attentive care and optimal well-being. How much of this I expressed to the adults in my life, I can hardly remember. The hope was to inhabit the world the way Woody Allen did, as both conspirator and judge. In them, I found a vision of the future I wanted, a series of aspirations - to have opinions, to write, to go to book parties but also to make fun of people who approached those things too seriously. The early 1980s marked both the period of my adolescent hunger for an urbane, grown-up life in New York and the dawn of VHS, enabling the obsessive consumption of movies, which in my case meant the obsessive consumption of movies by Woody Allen. ![]() ![]() īetween the years 1979, when it opened in theaters, and 1984, I saw “Manhattan” 11 times, after which I stopped keeping count. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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