Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover imaginary breadlines at McDonald's. Philadelphia magazine published a "Survival Guide to the Next Depression." U.S. News & World Report, which is hardly trendy or sensational, recently examined the likelihood of another 1929-style crash. The cover line, "What a Depression Is Really Like-Scenes from the 1930s," was a bit alarming for the sober story inside. In fact, economists generally agree that a return to the horrors of the '30s-when unemployment hit 25% as measured then (it is now 7.1%) and industrial production dropped by 53% (it is now down 4.3%)-is not remotely possible...
...Weston and Evans which he selected distort their work. Both men represent the birth of modern photography, but by trying to cast them as "hard focus pictorialists" he takes all the edge out of their radical innovations. Weston is represented with several abstractly formal pictures from the early 1930s (e.g., cross-sections of an onion and of a Nautilus shell), but with only one landscape, and none of his final landscapes from Pt. Lobos. Evans, in turn, has several portraits of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--vintage, but only one of the streetscene/building shots which constitute most...
...mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes (whose film image dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track 29. Would you like a shoe shine?" The movie is haunted...
...year. As the price of oil increased, it kicked up the prices of countless oil-based products, including fertilizers, petrochemicals and synthetic textiles. To battle inflation, all Western nations clamped on restrictive budget and credit policies, causing their economies to slow down simultaneously for the first time since the 1930s...
...Belgium, 18% in Britain, 25% in Italy. To meet its trade deficit, Italy has borrowed more than $13 billion, incurring interest payments of nearly $1 billion a year. Prime Minister Harold Wilson says that the fivefold increase in oil prices aggravated Britain's worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and is severely testing the country's social and political fabric. Only West Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium ran trade surpluses...