Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the increasing unemployment, the wage-price spiral continues. One example: the autoworkers' settlement with General Motors, which will set the pattern for the industry. If inflation averages 8%, the cost-of-living escalator in the new contract will boost the average cost of wages and benefits paid to GM workers from $15 per hour to $20 over three years, for a cumulative raise...
...view of the gentlemen who fashioned this pop quasi-documentary set to music, Eva was spunky, iron-willed, flagrantly corrupt and a canny mistress of horizontal levitation. With few visible qualms, Evita trades on the voguish temper of the age, which holds that however sleazy, venal or decadent a person is, his or her rise to the top confers chic, even upon moral carrion...
...movie's unpleasant milieu easily and remain captivated throughout. While the film is full of golden Parma landscapes, the dominant visual fixture is the moon: it is the film's metaphor for characters whose mysterious dark sides only gradually reveal themselves. In Bertolucci's brilliant climax, set at an open-air opera rehearsal, his artis tic conceits all converge. As the camera constantly shifts its point of view, we see that Luna 's events form a different drama-or opera-from each player's perspective. Only the moon, hovering above, can know the total picture...
...humor. The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958) appeared as slim companion pieces; they pivoted on the same philosophical question, i.e., how to impose values on a neutral universe; and both dwelt on despair as a source of grim comedy. But they were also set in a recognizable version of Maryland's Eastern Shore and populated with conventional characters. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) changed course. An encyclopedic parody of 18th century English picaresque fiction, the novel was also a comic meditation on early colonial American history. From a few factual clues, Barth dreamed...
...territory well: its shimmering landscapes, its enclosing solipsism, the profound and dippy magic by which children suddenly acquire passion. In Endless Love, the mother of one such adolescent says in rueful retrospect: "We felt as if we'd given a child permission to experiment with a little chemistry set only to find she was an undiscovered genius-solving ancient alchemical riddles, bonding once incompatible molecules, filling the cellar with luminous smoke...