Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What all these movies have in common, besides expensiveness, is an elusive "special event quality" that gets them talked about until people regard them as a must-see. Since movie tickets now often sell for $3 or more-and a movie night-on-the-town, complete with dinner and babysitter, costs several times that-most Hollywoodians believe that only "special event" films can pull customers away from their TV sets...
...reasons of justice, morality, effectiveness and practicality, therefore, quotas are wrong and misguided. Employers and admissions officers should establish race and sex-blind systems for selecting applicants. The goal in fighting racism should be the establishment of a fair process based on merit, without regard to race, sex, or ethnic group, instead of an end state with various percentages of racial and minority groups represented in jobs and schools...
...theme of repudiation runs strong-rejection of old faces and old methods. Many, if not most Americans -devout liberals as well as professed conservatives-now regard their Government as a huge, inefficient, tax-guzzling and somehow hostile presence. For a long while, of course, Americans have been in at least rhetorical revolt against Big Government, big bureaucracy and big programs. What is new is the success of the candidates who have grasped and stumped on this issue. Jimmy Carter's early runaway, Ronald Reagan's rebound and Jerry Brown's recent prominence can be credited at least...
Radical feminists regard Sigmund Freud as the ultimate male chauvinist -and with some reason. The master taught that women are masochistic, secretive, insincere, dependent and jealous, have little sense of justice and become more rigid and unchangeable at an earlier age than...
...Acting," he says, "is an empty and useless profession. I do it for the money because for me there is no pleasure. The fact is, there are no contemporary writers of importance. Not one. O'Neill and Tennessee Williams had moments, but I don't regard them as great classical writers. Movies? Forget it. I'm convinced that the larger the gross, the worse the picture. Bergman and Buñuel are visionaries, wonderful artists and craftsmen. How many people in the world have ever seen one of their films or ever heard of them...