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...concede that one could make an equally lame list from among most years' top-sellers, lowest-common-demoninator taste being what it is. But I can't recall another time period with the sheer depth of tastelessness that typified the mid-'70s. It wasn't just the No. 1 one song that was bad, No. 100 was equally compromised. The only good music was way, way, way underground - subterranean, troglodytic, journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth stuff...
...like Mickey Mantle or Orson Welles, a man both loved and respected. And punk mattered, it changed lives like jazz did or the '60s did. It was only stupid when it wanted to be; if you couldn't hear that, you would never break on through to the sheer sensual pleasure it offered. I'm grateful I was there, that I saw the Ramones, that I heard their music...
...ever to stop to notice the art around you? Do you ever pause to consider the sheer beauty of color, shape and form of the physical world that is part of your daily life...
...which candidates largely said what they believed without micromanagement, “spin” was not an art form, presidential hopefuls could jump into a race a short few months before their party’s nominating convention and grassroots organizing—not TV commercials or sheer spending power—ruled the day. In short, it was a political world that was much less cynical, even if politicians on both sides of the aisle flamed Communist-infiltration rhetoric to their own advantage...
Ultimately, the sheer diversity of the subject matter, endlessly alternating between the skewed and the informative, ends up allowing the film as a whole to connect with every section of your mind in some manner, though it may not leave every part entirely sated. Fisher credited this “alternation of heavy and light material” in the film to the Taoist concept of “tai chi—the cosmic dialogue of yin and yang.” Indeed, he said, many of the film’s insights have their groundings...