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...moment will be superseded by another one, tomorrow or the next day--all marvels are disposable; 2) innovations are not always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about them an aura of imbecility, leading to 5) the Paradox of Retrograde Progress. Television is a Faustian bargain (a dazzling technology that induces dullness and even moronism), and the Internet has the same ominous tendencies. It is not a bad idea...
Many Germans welcome the change. The 1960s and '70s were a particularly intense time in Germany as young people threw off the social straitjacket of the 1950s and the legacy of Nazism. Fischer, who among other assorted jobs worked as a taxi driver, brought some of that contrarian spirit into German political life, famously clashing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. Schröder was not a radical but shared his cohort's progressive outlook and freewheeling lifestyle. (Schröder and Fischer have eight marriages between them.) "They all wore suits and ties...
...distinguished him from his counterparts; the style has recently been co-opted by newer auteurs like Wes Anderson in “The Royal Tenenbaums.” A veteran Rolling Stone contributor since age fifteen, and married to one of the rock divas of the ’70s (Nancy Wilson of Heart), Crowe inundates “Elizabethtown” with “little tips of the hats to artists” as he calls it—flashing a Ryan Adams album cover, instructing his protagonist to dance “with one hand waving free...
...Television in the 1960s and early '70s did not lack absurdities ... Yet of all the ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same man, Sherwood Schwartz ... [He] called Gilligan...
...PLAYED A GAY CHARACTER ON SOAP IN THE '70S--PRETTY GROUNDBREAKING. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WILL & GRACE? Well, you can't sound like one of these disgruntled baseball players who 40 years later watch these guys make these salaries and get pissed off and go, "You know, back then, we made $10,000 a year. When we were gay on TV, we would decorate an apartment ourselves, and now they need five guys to come in and do it." It's great that they can say and do what they do. I'm shocked what they can get away...