<p><span class="deck">The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a richer time than we thought.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It began in the Paris underground of World War II and evolved over 30 years into a phenomenon that so overturned cultural norms that it could not survive.</span></p>
