Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sutherland feels that Harvard Square has been transformed into "a different world." She says students seem to buy more now, "and they seem more interested in art and in having things...
...many American consumers have clearly shopped beyond their means. Adjusted for inflation, personal spending grew 21% between 1980 and 1986, while disposable income during that period rose only 17.6%. One reason is that consumers cannot seem to keep up with all the shiny new temptations. Never before have they been offered so many innovations to make life easier or more comfortable: cellular phones, cappuccino makers, home computers, hot tubs, Nautilus machines, camcorders, stereo TV sets, trash compactors, snow blowers. Giving in to impulse buying is easier than ever. The outlets are ubiquitous: shopping malls, mail-order catalogs, toll-free numbers...
While advertisers have used pop songs by such current artists as Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, David Bowie and Lou Reed, they seem to especially like oldies. They get great melodies. the Crystals' "Da Do Ron Ron" stays in your head while effectively plugging the Energizer. And these songs evoke a happy (read: when they were younger) time in the lives of many consumers...
...first scene does little to change this impression. A flock of anachronistically granola-esque maidens meander, lamenting over their unrequited love for the poet Reginald Bunthorne. In the context of a set containing an enormous portrait of Elvis, a malt-shop sign and a jukebox, these sentiments seem better suited to tenth-grade teeny-boppers than seasoned literati. Moreover, the characters' "hip" enunciation of phrases like "they're so square" mix poorly with the original "prithee's." To cap it off, Colonel Calverly's (David Magill) patter song with the dragoons, although extremely well sung, is simply neither tuneful...
...tenplex moviegoer, Rocky Horror may just seem like your ordinary rock musical about the corruption of a naive young couple whose car breaks down one dark and stormy night and are forced to take shelter with your average transvestite bisexual doctor who happens to live in a large and sinister castle...