Word: holywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holywood, which has served for over half a century as America's national fantasy factory, has long been involved in promoting the Christmas myth. From Miracle on 34th Street to Mr. Magoo's Christmas Special, the film industry has churned out dozens of reels of celluloid purveying the Christmas message. Occasionally a heretic has arisen to challenge such Christmas-mongering, as when Chico Marx courageously asserted in A Night at the Opera, "You no can fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause." But alas, such prophets have not been honored in their own country, and it is a sure...
Government Inquiry. For several weeks the "Insight" reporters searched for clues. Finally they had a stroke of luck: they managed to interview two former prisoners who told a sensational story of interrogation at Holywood Barracks near Belfast. Among other things, "Insight" was able to report definitely last week, prisoners had been kept in darkness for days at a time without food, had been subjected to a barrage of deafening noise, had been made to perform excruciatingly tiring exercises. Purpose of these "disorientation" techniques: to force the prisoners to give away the location of I.R.A. gunmen and arms. The methods...
...British public is growing increasingly restive over the murder of so many British soldiers and police in Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, the Sunday Times report produced a storm of protest, and Prime Minister Edward Heath announced that the government would launch an inquiry into the Holywood affair...
...political climate of the thirties denuded the last of the Horatio Algers and radicalized intellectuals, but the middle class reached for alternative ways out. Holywood became their one-dimen-sional Mecca, dance marathons and polesitting were popularized, and newspapers began running columns of advice for lost souls. West's last three novels, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million and The Day of the Locust, use these vaudvillian antics not satirically, but with an eye to the deep pain that necessitated them...