Word: friedmanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story "Hurrying a Heart Attack" [April 15] gives Rosenman and Friedman's suggestion that an aggressive, competitive Type A personality might be able to slow himself down by writing "his own obituary." But wouldn't this Type A fellow, upon reading the obituary, decide that he had not accomplished enough, that time was running out on him, and that he had better hurry back to the grind...
...were among the nation's top-grossing films and porno stars like Linda Lovelace (Throat) and Marilyn Chambers (Behind the Green Door) became nationally-known figures. Today, hard-core movie houses are half empty. "Business is only 60% of what it was last year," says Porno Producer David Friedman, president of the Adult Film Association...
...full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core film today is as strictly constructed as a medieval morality play," Friedman complains. "There are just so many positions you can film...
There are approximately 730 hardcore theaters in the U.S., and about 1 million regular patrons. To make big money, porno films must lure larger audiences. But, says Friedman, "the millions who saw Deep Throat and Green Door have now seen a dirty picture. They belong to the one-time-only club...
Seeing little chance of caging runaway prices, a growing number of experts have recently been urging that nations find some way to live with them. A band of conservative economists led by the provocative Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago are vigorously touting "indexing," a system that in theory preserves the buying power of money by tying all paper values to a price indicator. For example, if prices rise 7%, so does everything else: wages, prices specified in long-term business contracts, interest rates on bonds, savings and mortgages. Even taxes are included: a person whose salary rises...