Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only served to intensify the cult of Dean. He began to be looked at as some sort of prophet rather than simply an actor; someone who had he lived would have not only portrayed, but solved many of the problems. People tried to get in touch with Dean's spirit; there were rumors that Dean was not really dead, but would one day return; red James Dean jackets became the standard dress of the Dean cultists and in many countries around the world his best film, "Rebel Without a Cause," was banned because of the stir it was causing among...
...year ago, that reply would have seemed a fearful sin against the spirit of liberal economic doctrine-to say nothing of the spirit in which Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White House. But in the past twelve months, economic and political thought has gone through a wrenching change. In the words of Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "1978 was the year in which our nose was rubbed in the new reality." Part of the new reality is that inflation is Public Enemy No. 1, that it is persistent and pervasive, and that...
...must be taped. Within hours of his arrival, shooting had started. Several of the pig Muppets had started an off-camera fight but had been quelled. Guest Star Harry Belafonte had overcome his initial queasiness at working with shaggy short people and had sung The Banana Boat Song with spirit, even though Cap tain Link Hogthrob pigged one of the bananas...
...President in 1952 began the time consistently, if imperfectly, remembered as the quiet '50s. The furies and griefs that are recalled as the essence of the '60s began not in 1960 but at the death of John Kennedy. Then came that brutal ransacking of the national spirit that did not even pause at the end of 1969 but continued through the disillusionments of Watergate. The '60s did not really let go until Richard Nixon resigned...
When Travolta joins her in bed, he seems to be making love to a mirror image of himself. There is no erotic chemistry whatever, but the romantic trysts do reinforce the guiding spirit behind the movie. For those who toil in the never-never land of camp, heterosexuality is still the biggest joke...