Word: serfdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid so much to have one's literature ground into pulp by the coarse merchants who ran the movies? In the '30s and '40s a few screenwriters, pre-eminently Preston Sturges, seized the means of production and became their own directors. The rest mostly complained about their six-figure serfdom, partly because they were so good at it. "It is as difficult to make a toilet seat as a castle window," Hecht wrote in 1962, "even if the view is different...