Word: passee
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Other sequences, funny in themselves, seem to come out of nowhere. At one point, Max, exploiting his popularity as a rock critic, lectures a group of rapt girls, who are busily taking notes: "The answer to whither rock is hither. Some people say thither but they're wrong. Their theories...
Amid the peaceful aura emanating from the 1976 Democratic National Convention in a sometimes bloody boxing and hockey arena transformed into a political Garden of Eden, there was no way to incite a fight over anything. The fiery war issues of 1968 and 1972 seemed ancient history; the countercultural revolution...
The sixties were a turbulent decade, and their turbulence was reflected, if nowhere else, in their music. It was like you just couldn't walk into a coffee house in the Village or even Roseland Dance City any more, listen to Sly (Dance to the Music) or like the Byrds...
The trouble is, says Harvard Business School Professor George C. Lodge, that the trustbusters are being guided by the "old American ideology." In his new book, The New American Ideology (Knopf; $12.50), Lodge declared passe the old 17th and 18th century business and political values of competition, property rights, limited...
To put down an older executive, says Korda, one should speak very softly to make him think he is going deaf. If that does not work, get him talking about the old days. Once he defends the old policies, he can be branded as passe.