Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the stories in Christmas Eve were first published in The New Yorker between 1953 and 1973. The oldest and least characteristic deal with Herbert's Retreat, a cozy riverside community near New York that somewhat resembles Sneden's Landing. It is a world where the worst that can happen is to lose your Irish maid or private view of the Hudson. Plots turn on such matters as who will get nightly custody of an antique stone hot-water bottle. Though she deals ironically with such elegantly dated doings, Brennan never substitutes malice for wit-not even...
...which the left was also favored, was on everyone's mind during last week's discussions of a possible change of government. No new general elections are scheduled for three years, and the Christian Democrats are not likely to seek a special election while they are in retreat. Some Italians insisted last week that perhaps the time had come for the long-discussed "historic compromise" that would allow Communists to join any new coalition. Realistically, however, the Communists still shy away from participation in the government. They fear that this would lead to a political cleavage...
...since the '40s it has been De Kooning's fate, as Harold Rosenberg once observed, to be considered in decline; almost every change in his art, from the Women series of 1951 to the gnarled, glowering bronze figures that occupy him now, has been greeted as a retreat from some previous aesthetic win. Embracing contradictions, De Kooning refuses to be typecast. "I think," he declared in 1949, "it is the most bourgeois idea to think one can make a style beforehand. To desire to make a style is to apologize for one's own anxiety...
...tallest building, a 136-story glass tower, explodes in flames. Vast armies of ants relentlessly eat their way across the great southwest desert. Billions of giant bees swarm malevolently through the steel canyons of New York City, and somewhere underground the survivors of nuclear warfare find their cavernous retreat invaded by hordes of vampire bats...
Attempts to retreat into softcore, like Deep Throat II, in which the explicit scenes are all off-camera, have failed. Nor have "religious" novelties like Not Just Another Woman, in which Porno Circuit Star Tina Russell plays a nun, or Him, about a homosexual with graphic Christ fantasies, provoked any big box office response. The thrill, it seems, is gone...