Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble with a Golden Age is that nobody sees the sheen and shine until years later. In Hollywood's case, it was many years later. East Coast intellectuals, who thought that the only real acting was done on Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled...
There is no formula for magic, and what happened then is something of a mystery even today. Part of the explanation may be that the studio system, which had been born 20 years or so earlier, had come of age; it had reached its maturity but was still full of zest. The bosses may have been crude and often tyrannical, but they loved their business, they knew what they were doing, and they had created huge organizations whose only purpose was to send new pictures to thousands of theaters, most of which, in the U.S., were owned by the studios...
...their Golden Age was soon to end, and 1939, which had begun on a note of optimism in both Europe and America ended in a new world war. With an uncanny prescience, the movies of 1939 seemed to anticipate what was to come. People may have gone crazy over there, they seemed to say, but here, here in America, there is still safety. Even that sunny musical, Babes in Arms, ends in a curious and, in retrospect, quite poignant, plea for peace. "We send our greetings to friendly nations," sings the chorus, led by Garland and Rooney...
...most cases result because parents delay vaccination of their children, recommended at 15 months, until they are ready for school and need a certificate of vaccination. The National Association of Children's Hospitals reports that only 60% of children under the age of 4 receive the shots. Yet the increasing use of day care brings children together earlier and increases the need for protection...
...curfew on children under 18. Those caught after 11 p.m. (midnight on weekends) would be hauled to police stations; parents of repeat offenders would be fined. Police are skeptical. In murder cases, says Police Chief Maurice Turner, the "average victim is 31, and the average perpetrator is over the age of 18." If Mayor Marion Barry signs the bill, the local A.C.L.U. has vowed to go to court against...