Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a strange year for American movies. The most popular films of 1987 have a dark hue: violent policiers (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Stakeout), corrosive Viet Nam memorials (Platoon and Full Metal Jacket), thrillers about sexual anxiety (Fatal Attraction). Steven Spielberg has flown to the dark side of E.T.: in Empire of the Sun a boy goes to war, and nearly goes mad. Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan...
...extremes of the season that get him down, wear him down to a frazzle of somnambulant grinning. Jews and Christians sing out their lungs this time of year, bear candles against the abbreviated light. Even secular humanists find a way to hold the dark at bay. Captain Midlife knows of an elementary school that takes the separation of church and state so seriously, the only holiday it celebrates is the winter solstice. The children sing solstice songs ("Joy to the world, the sun has sunk"?). All in the name of pitting one extreme against the other. Pumping like a bellows...
...fault of their own, have been handed control of the world. Control of the world? What a snap! It's control of oneself that takes real skill. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. An entire stage of life compressed into a symbolic five-week journey of light and dark, crying and singing. And here comes Captain Midlife, dopey as the day is short, hollering orders into the gale, hailing other captains as they pass one another in the night, captains of industry, of law, of medicine, even of ships; every one of them a champion faker, every one knowing that...
...tenplex moviegoer, Rocky Horror may just seem like your ordinary rock musical about the corruption of a naive young couple whose car breaks down one dark and stormy night and are forced to take shelter with your average transvestite bisexual doctor who happens to live in a large and sinister castle...
...idle 68.5 million acres of cropland (an area bigger than Colorado). Now those payouts are threatened by Washington's efforts to slash the federal deficit. "This has been a good year, but everyone's looking over his shoulder," warns Iowa State University Economist Neil Harl. "There are still some dark clouds...