Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroic drama of Satyricon. Fellini's achievement, in Satyricon, of a coherent interpretation of the ancient classical world different from anyone else's, was much greater than anything he's done since, but his audience seems to have missed it. Now critics are falling head over heels in a rush to congratulate him on having made a sweet, accessible movie--he just received the New York Film Critics' award for the best movie and best director. But madness can't be dealt with by a little stern competence from a nun and fascism can't be fought with phonographs...
...effective Dec. 31, is surely the most passionately awaited marketing event since Repeal reopened the nation's borders to the world's eager distillers. In hopes of an American stampede into bullion, speculators from Amsterdam to Zurich to Johannesburg have engaged in a considerable gold rush of their own. Last week alone, the price of "free market" gold traded on the London exchange climbed by $7.50 to a record $195 per troy ounce.* That was up from $155 just four months ago, when Congress passed the law lifting the ban, and represented a 75% increase in the price...
More cautious projections, though, suggest that the Great Gold Rush of 1975 may turn out to be a walk at best, with total sales as low as $900 million, for several reasons. After coping with rising prices for necessities, Americans do not have much money left to commit to a purely static and defensive investment that pays no interest or dividends. Prospective buyers have also become increasingly aware in recent weeks of the risks and expenses in owning bullion. So, too, have some banks, where most of the gold is expected to be sold. The nation's two largest...
Electronic pocket calculators until recently were expensive novelties, used chiefly by mathematicians, statisticians and scientists. But production has increased, prices are plummeting, and the rush is on. Simple calculators now cost less than $20, and some 12 million of the electronic devices were sold in 1974. Housewives are now using them to balance family checkbooks, and calculators have even begun to invade the classroom. In fact, the growing popularity of the calculators among students and teachers-even in the primary grades-adds up to one of the hottest fads in education...
...longer than anyone thought, and that the age of the universe was at least 16 billion years, or roughly 4 billion to 6 billion years older than earlier estimates. Even more important, the redshift measurements of nearby galaxies gave no indication of any significant gravitational slowdown in the outward rush of the galaxies. "It's a terrible surprise," says Sandage, who for years had been leading proponent of the idea that the universe would eventually close in on itself...