Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a burdensome new "tax" that will worsen the already deepening recession by reducing the amount of cash Americans have for spending on all sorts of nonessentials, ranging from new cars and skiing holidays to Christmas presents and charitable contributions. A typical fuel bill for an oil-heated home, about $650 last year, is expected to climb to between $ 1,060 and $ 1,200 this year. In 1978 the average American worker had to labor for 19 hr. every month of the heating season to pay his fuel-oil bill; this winter he will have to work a walloping...
Republican Murray Weidenbaum, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that nothing less than a series of structural changes in the economy can break inflation. He proposes measures, including reduction of Government subsidies to farmers, shippers and other interest groups and elimination of some of the federal regulation burden that discourages innovation and new business spending...
Paul Halvonik, who had a respected record as an American Civil Liberties Union counsel before his judicial appointment, is a longtime friend and former aide to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., who named him to the bench in 1978. Previously he had been California's first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense...
...Salem, Ore., late last year resulted in the acquittal of Husband John accused of rape by his wife Greta. Attitudes are changing, however. Last week, in another Salem, in Massachusetts, James K. Chretien was convicted of raping his estranged wife Carmelina. He is believed to be the first American ever convicted of wife rape. Chretien was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Morse Jr. to three to five years in Walpole state prison...
Those limits are defined-quite graphically-as incest, drug addiction and ambisexuality. The practitioners of these diverse sports are Caterina (Clayburgh), a recently widowed American opera star, and her androgynous 15-year-old son Joe (Matthew Barry). During the course of a summer singing tour through Italy, the wealthy mother and the spoiled boy carry on a tortured relationship that might well shock the cast of La Dolce Vita. Obscene screaming matches and violent brawls quickly give way to grueling sequences featuring heroin injection and masturbatory sex. The film's dramatic structure is built around the secrets the characters...