Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITHOUT so much as a last gasp, the movies' New Romanticism has vanished as quickly as it came. Meanwhile, politics and the counter-culture have stopped selling, and sex is left for the pornographers. All that remains to fill the cultural gap is violence, and violence has done admirably. The success and controversy of El Topo, The Devils, and Straw Dogs in the last six months are witnesses to the arrival of brutality at center stage--fresh copy for the press, love object for the cultists, and general bugaboo for the hysterically-minded...
Caution, confusion and cynicism are perfectly natural from the businessmen's viewpoint. They have too often been disappointed by premature forecasts of prosperity by Washington's erstwhile prophets of boom. "I'm prepared to be optimistic, but I think there is a significant credibility gap between the economic forecasts and reality," says Colt Industries President David Margolis...
...Greater Gap. Though New York is not facing an immediate court case, the commission investigated the same kind of financial disparities that have troubled courts in other states. For example: Long Island's North Shore town of Locust Valley, which has expensive homes and relatively few of them, taxes itself at a rate of $22.70 per $1,000 of its property's market value. That raises enough money to provide $1,722 for each child. Ten miles away, Levittown's blue-collar citizens pay school taxes of $35.60 per $1,000, but because Levittown is more densely...
...with the rest of the world. As reported by Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. last week, the U.S. balance of payments deficit probably hit a staggering $31 billion last year-nearly three times greater than the 1970 deficit and far more than anyone had anticipated. The payments gap in the fourth quarter alone was $6.7 billion on an official settlement basis. That was below the $12 billion imbalance in the previous three months but higher than first-half averages...
Zoom (PBS) is a children's show produced by kids who want to stay on their own side of the generation gap, thank you. Virtually all the material is by children and is selected by the seven-member cast (ages nine through 13). The kids sing, dance, play games, talk in "Ubbi-Dubbi"-a catchy code language reminiscent of past generations' pig Latin-show home movies and give laconic instructions in all manner of skills. The first show featured a filmed demonstration of how to build a raft from tree limbs, leaves and an old tarpaulin...