Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining scientists, have a dwarf running out of his room? Why the ball?, and why the young girl who mysteriously prowls the space lab in a blue negligee? "Is she real?," Kelvin asks Snauf, the last astronaut. "Is she human?" Snauf only laughs, wildly, wickedly. A panic starts to grab Kelvin, like a pounding hangover on a clammy summer morning. No more Mr. Imperterbable. On a tape made just before his suicide, Gibaryan tells Kelvin nervously not to think that these "guests"--the apparitions--are just figments of his imagination. After all, he tells him, this is no longer Earth...
...film also throws into high melodramatic relief certain recognizable human truths: the shock of sudden loss, the panic of the effort to recoup, the mourning and guilt that blind the protagonist to a multitude of suspicious signs as he seeks expiation and a chance to relive his life. In a sense, the movie offers viewers the opportunity to do the same thing-by going back to a more romantic era of the cinema and the simple, touching pleasures denied the audience by the current antiromantic spirit of the movies...
Behind the furor in Chicago is a combustible mix of race and economics that has left the city, like many other American cities, divided into separate black and white enclaves. A few blacks move in, the whites begin to panic, and within several years the white neighborhood has turned completely black. "Blockbusters" take advantage of the turnover by buying up houses cheaply from departing whites and reselling them at high prices to arriving blacks...
...reluctant France, that the International Monetary Fund should auction off one-sixth of its gold hoard, or 25 million ounces. Meanwhile, the economic conditions that triggered the gold boom of 1973-74 have largely disappeared. The dollar is steady, world inflation rates have come down and the general panic set off by the oil crisis has abated. All those trends reduce the distrust of paper money that moves many speculators to put their funds in gold...
...dropped below $120-a point at which traders thought government banks would start buying gold to prop up the price and protect the value of their own stocks. But the central banks stayed out of the market, and when it became obvious that they would not support the price, panic selling...