Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is pitched to the public mood. And it ought to be a hit, not just with the faddists of feminism; there is plenty of stuff for feminists too, not new stuff, not all of it the right stuff, but stuff. At the center of the story Isadora Wing asks the question, "What does it mean to be a woman?," and only pirouettes round the problem. She hedges over whether to be or not to be liberated, zigzaging the issue until she finally aborts her own liberation. It's a real yoyo story...
There are other neurosurgeons in the country who conduct private brain operations to cure mood states such as depression and neurosis. They claim that their work is standard and non-experimental, yet, it also is potentially very controversial...
...Year is a better movie--which isn't saying much--but not too different. It's as if he tried here to penetrate to the man and woman the first movie sloshed over with sentiment. And he ended up with just as pretty a movie: He tints for mood, blurs for romance, switches to black and white for solemnity. The actors don't have to do anything because the soulful camera projects all their moods on them. It's rhythmed and designed more like a bumpy hayride than a movie...
Still, the issue of Watergate was clearly gnawing at some voters. When Steiger asked a meeting of the Sheboygan Kiwanis Club how many wanted the President to disclose more facts, every man raised his hand. They looked around and grinned at their own unanimity. The mood in the room was that if the President would just come clean, he would be forgiven...
Replied Bohlen: "It must be because you cut his budget." The mood was not always so mellow...