Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having committed the foul deed. The device does not work, despite the occasionally droll efforts of most of the cast, among whom Connery, Bergman. Redgrave and Widmark are the most effective. Everyone seems to have had a good time lurking about in the Calais coach in his posh 1930s duds. But the amusement is a little offputting. It is like watching a few people enjoy themselves at a party that hardly anyone else can bear...
...that the nation was in a recession at all. As recently as October, Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent asserted that the economy was only going through a period of "sideways waffling." Now, though, the slide has suddenly become something more like a nosedive-by some measures, the worst since the 1930s...
...weeks to a full year. As he told the Detroit News in announcing his plan: "We have to think about the social consequences if things continue in the old way. You can't expect people to sell apples on the street corners as they did in the 1930s." Another reason for a high gasoline tax, though one that Ford did not mention, is that it would discourage consumption and so reduce U.S. dependence on exorbitantly priced imported...
Died. Vittorio De Sica, 73, Italian director and actor who, with Roberto Rossellini, brought a new realism to films; of lung cancer; in Paris. De Sica during the 1920s performed as a romantic lead in stage comedies and musicals, and in the 1930s turned to similar roles in films. In 1940 he directed the first of his 34 movies, but World War II and its devastating effects on Italy moved De Sica to focus his attention on the plight of the poor. He often found his actors among street people, told unadorned tales of poverty and pain...
...history of this nation, there have been times when events moved more swiftly than the people perceived. It was that way in the 1920s and the 1930s. Before many understood what had happened, the world moved grimly on and the rites of the jazz age became a mockery. There is a lot of that feeling right now. Jerry Ford is still doing the Charleston, and the music has stopped...