Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill believes there is good reason for the changed mood. Says he: "There's an overall feeling that the world is a tinder box. We all know that we are not as strong as we used to be. The Navy is obsolete. We've neglected conventional weaponry. The feeling in Congress is that our equipment is worn out, and we better get it ready...
WILLIAMS IS ON less solid ground when he does other people's songs on side one. "Losing You," with Pete Carr's pulsating electric guitar and Charlie Caniel's soaring fiddle, is very fine musically, but the mood of this basically sad song is spoiled by the uptempo beat they provide. "On Susan's Floor" is a pleasant ballad, which seems out of place on this album. The best song on the side is again one of Williams's own, "(Baby I Loved You) I Really Did," which details a break-up as bitter as it is timely...
American films in the late 40s and early 50s were dominated by a style called film noir, as the optimistic excitement of wartime Hollywood gave way to a bleak mood of disillusionment and introspection. Directors turned away from the mythology of the American Dream to examine the darker sides of the American psyche: corruption, jealousy, greed, obsessive hate, and murder became crucial themes. Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, showing in the Orson Welles's film noir festival is in many ways a perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected...
...have changed. The women's movement has extended its unsettling influence back in time, so that women-and men-have begun to look at their female forebears in a different light. The history of Jewish immigration to this country has acquired a certain vogue, spurred on by a general mood of nostalgia and in particular by the movie Hester Street. And there seems to be a new respect for the elderly, aroused not only by the militancy of a group like the Gray Panthers, but also by the increasing popularity of oral history-a discipline that relies on the memories...
...revolution in sexual attitudes that had altered many of the traditional American views of sex. So at the very time the court was remanding to communities the right to judge pornography, "community standards" on such delicate matters were in more disarray than ever before. Few localities were in the mood or of the single mind required to take on the porn lords. Another factor was the growing tendency of police and prosecutors to argue that campaigns against "victimless crime" represented a misuse of limited resources that should be devoted to coping with the ever rising rates of murder, rape, robbery...