Word: funs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucky Day, ebullient and ironic by turns, is obviously an attempt to break some new ground, both a modification of what Price has called "diary music" and a tentative rapprochement with "have fun" tunes. It may seem like a transitional record. But first cut to last, it sounds like a good time, the restless work of a front-rank pop talent...
Still spending, but also cutting fun, frills and other nonessentials...
...necessities are really necessary. Even in a pinch, most Americans are reluctant to cut expenditures for such practical aspects of their lives as tuition, rent, utility bills and essential or even vacation travel. In consequence, they start out by trimming what economists call discretionary spending: buying things that are fun, frills or otherwise not absolutely essential to daily life and work...
...Though The Ten Commandments and Remarkable Men are theologically antithetical, they are cinematic first cousins. Both films suffer from an excess of piety, a shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular, campy Moses (Charlton Heston) is a hell of a lot more fun than Brook's wimpy, self-effacing Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic). Human saintliness plays better on the big screen when it is accompanied by thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins in a small town on the Russian-Turkish border...
...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...