Word: rootlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heed, Reagan. High interest rates, which these folks link to the huge federal deficits, have brought bankruptcy to more farmers than at any other time since the Great Depression. Families, after generations on the same land, have given up and drifted off to the melancholy ranks of the rootless. Pay heed, Mondale. The last thing they need is another tax increase on top of real estate taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, Social Security taxes. And stores that long ago lost their merchants have filled up with Government offices where the personnel never seems to dimmish, and their pay always seems...
...flip side of Repo Man's bizarreness emerges in the next few scenes, wherein we are introduced to the film's chief protagonist, a young suburban punk called Otto. Otto is rootless, aimless, unhinged--of this we are made painfully aware. We meet him first in a supermarket, where he is getting fired from his job, but the scene quickly shifts to outside an L.A. home where a gang of punks are into some serious slam-dancing action. The scene and music (solid hardcore) immediately conjure up the rage of Decline, the late great documentary about the L.A. punk scene...
...choice of Morgan, a marketing wonder but a complete outsider to both Atari and computers, at first seemed like another bizarre Warner decision. Morgan was an Easterner in a Californian's game, a traditionalist in a rootless industry, a believer in long-term growth in a market hooked on quick profit and instant gratification, a technological skeptic among scientific true believers. Morgan had run the Philip Morris tobacco-marketing division, whose products included such fast-rising brands as Virginia Slims and Merit, with an almost ostentatious lack of computers. He preferred writing meticulous longhand notes on legal pads...
Steinbeck ended up a Lost Generation unto himself. As a novelist, he found his theme only when he ran into those other lost and rootless Americans, the Dust Bowl migrants, making their way to California's orchards and lettuce farms in 1935-36. The Grapes of Wrath stands as his one full-scale masterpiece...
...village would be an even more heinous crime. And while Bertrande and her husband are physically threatened by those who suspect Martin is an impostor, it never occurs to the couple to begin again in another town. But that is only a solution in today's mobile, even rootless, society: in 16th-century France, even train travels would have been far too swift...