Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thriller The Conversation, he offered the most sophisticated indictment of Watergate-era politics yet to appear onscreen. Given his talent for fusing ideas with the diverse demands of big-budget entertainment, Coppola was the only real candidate to make the definitive film about Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now promised to go beyond the narrow scope of Coming Home, beyond the wrenching drama of The Deer Hunter. These promises, though broken, can still be seen in the film. Like other legendary movie mishaps, from D.W. Griffith's Intolerance to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Apocalypse Now is haunted by the ghost...
...disasters make for big cases-and big rewards...
Signs of the rising new militancy are apparent in many places. In Los Angeles last month, 500 unionized nurses struck a Kaiser Permanente hospital in a contract squabble with the big health maintenance organization. In Denver, municipal nurses are now suing the city, charging sex discrimination in salary scales.* Nurses in Denver make less than, say, a trainee traffic-signal repairman. An even greater disparity exists with doctors, whose median income is now more than $65,000 a year...
...time for Gimme Shelter!-"America's favorite tax-planning fun game." Today's big contestant: Susan Stamberg. She beats the clock and correctly identifies Federal Tax Form G, earning a chance at an Individual Retirement Account. Applause and organ music erupt in the radio studio. But on Round 2 she draws a blank on Form 2440, losing a chance to "become a limited partner in a solar-powered cattle ranch on a uranium field." Susan has to settle for an electric saucepan. "Until tomorrow," says a smarmy announcer as applause and music swell, "Remember: Give us shelter...
...game the world so loves to play." If the game is even madder these days because of the threat of nuclear annihilation, the world has learned to keep alive humanity's fascination with it by doing what both Homer and the Bible did so well: replaying the big wars at a safe distance. Almost 40 years after it began, just 34 years last week after it ended with the surrender of Japan, World War II, the biggest war in history, is thriving today with remarkable vigor in the minds and imaginations of Americans...