Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PITY, but hardly a surprise, that so many filmmakers are successfully peddling such worthless pictures to movie audiences these days. Any sense of taste or quality in popular films has apparently gone the way of the nickel subway ride. One might forgive a film's tastelessness if it were at least moderately amusing or entertaining, but if a film is both tasteless and boring, it is an intolerable...
...long overdue offer to begin sharing political power with the blacks immediately and to hold free elections, based on universal adult suffrage, by Dec. 31. This proposal was accepted by a number of Rhodesia's most prominent moderate black nationalists, who had long opposed Smith's regime. The popular Bishop Abel Muzorewa, for example, sees Smith's plan as a chance to establish black rule peacefully, although there is mounting evidence that this view is much too optimistic (see WORLD). Smith's plan has been rejected by the leaders of the radical Patriotic Front, guerrillas who have been waging...
Political life has not been easy lately for either the Socialists or the Centrists. Popular discontent has been rising steadily. Inflation in Portugal during the first six months of 1978 has climbed to an annual rate of 21%. To get approval from the International Monetary Fund for $750 million in loans from a consortium of Western countries, Scares' government agreed to strict austerity measures that have drastically raised the price of food, transportation, fuel and other necessities. The wages of urban industrial workers have barely managed to stay ahead of the spiraling prices; rural workers are now worse...
...Louis Auchincloss so popular? Gore Vidal claims, in a celebrated essay, that Auchincloss is our great chronicler of the upper classes, "the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs." Perhaps readers have wearied, Vidal suggests, of novelists who insist that only the immigrant story deserves to be told or devote themselves to tedious proclamations of selfhood while ignoring the class whose legend is writ in the Social Register. Despite his considerable failings as a novelist, Auchincloss does for that class what John O'Hara...
...news photo. This must seem strange at first, since the past 20 years have been the most photographed in history. Everything that happened, one might suppose, happened before a camera; there has never been anything like the sheer bulk of visual documentation left as the residue of a popular-photography culture. People and events seem ghostly unless they have been verified by a camera. Wars, elections, riots, disasters, communal ecstasies, the speeches of politicians and their deaths?all are eaten up by the omnivorous lens, as photography (through journalism) defines the terms of our fictitious intimacy with the world...