Word: esteli
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...columnist Joseph Alsop declared, "I have begun to think that the '70s are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...
...Painful enough to think of all that history pratfalling like Chevy Chase; excruciating to remember the fashions (the collars and ties, the ultrasuedes, the double knit bell-bottoms and medallions, the comic blow-dry haircuts) and the charlatanism of the self-esteem indulgences (est, gestalt, bioenergetics, Krishna Consciousness...
...Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:28:33 -0500 (EST...