Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witnesses of the Cultural Revolution that racked China from 1966 to 1969, the evangelistic tone of those words from a Peking radio broadcast last week had an ominous significance. After years of relative moderation, the country seemed on the brink of yet another convulsive turn leftward...
Despite the recent wave of popular unrest, Indonesia is far better off than it was under dictatorial President Sukarno, whose government was overthrown eight years ago. Sukarno drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy; today it has a foreign exchange surplus of $500 million, an 8% growth rate and a 25% inflation rate (v. a crushing 635% in 1966). Jakarta's main thoroughfare, the Jalan M.H. Thamrin, is lined with modern hotels and high-rise office blocks...
...constraining that there wasn't much to do but hop into your drag racer and drive around, going nowhere, burning energy. When the film focuses on the hot rods, the rock and roll and the cheeseburgers, then it is getting at forces operating behind a generation teetering on the brink of a changing world...
...French invaded in the middle of the 19th century, they expropriated vast tracts of lands, creating a tiny new class of French and Vietnamese landlords, and they hiked the tax rates and added new taxes. The majority of Vietnamese peasants were plunged into a frightful life on the brink of existence; even if they sold everything they owned, including their children, to keep up with rents and taxes, they were still in constant danger of starving to death...
...knowing why, he's hunted down as "the alien." Audiences, who always identified with Allen's alienation, feel no more at home in a hostile 2173 than he does. This is a change from the earlier Allen: Before there was a hint that the world was over the brink, but in Sleeper it's a blatant fact...