Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zamboni of the mind is now at work. The magic machine that sweeps away the refuse of what's transpired and lays clear the glassy sparkle of what's to ensue now attempts to construct a state of Harvard hockey that is positive and justified...
After three years of living with severe pay restraints, British workers are inclined to play follow-the-leader-meaning that the drivers' 21% increase will become the magic figure in future contract negotiations involving other unions. Practically speaking, the drivers' victory was a death blow to Prime Minister James Callaghan's attempt to enforce a 5% ceiling on wage increases this year. Callaghan met with heads of the powerful Trades Union Congress in an effort to patch together a new labor accord, but without any conclusive results. He also summoned leaders of four public service unions...
...Could it be that we are witnessing a weird new form of inflation? Is it conceivable that just as an oversupply of mon ey drives down the value of currency, an excess of sloganizing diminishes the catchiness of catchwords and the public's vulnerability to their magic? Who could dare say for sure? Yet the theory offers at least one hope of an eventual recovery...
...Dance is not only ballet. It's everything and everywhere," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, who ought to know. Britain's prima ballerina has narrated a six-part BBC series, The Magic of Dance, scheduled to air in the U.S. in the fall. To film the show, Fonteyn, 59, visited a ballet school in Peking, chatted with Fred Astaire in Los Angeles and inter viewed Nijinsky's daughter in Manhattan. Outside Athens, she saw the remains of a "temple of dance" built in 1904 by flamboyant American Dancer Isadora Duncan. "Isadora had a passion for children...
...however, a certain Marvel magic has been lost in the translation to video entertainment. TV's attempts at relevancy are encroaching on fantasy. On television the Hulk tries hypnosis therapy to cure his curious green condition and takes on such prosaic problems as teen-age alcoholism and child abuse. Similarly, TV's Spider-Man battles familiar terrorists and assassins instead of his old intergalactic foes like Doctor Doom. Lee misses the fantasy of the printed page. "A lot of the plots on the Spider-Man show," he complains, "are situations that Kojak could just as easily have handled...