Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic story in the late '70s is a big story, if not the big story," says George Taber, who, as TIME'S Washington-based economics correspondent since 1977, may be somewhat partial to the subject. Even before he began work on this week's big story about the "Topsy-Turvy Economy," Taber was hearing frequent complaints that there was no "new Keynes" to explain or solve inflation, declining productivity and the other persistent problems of the decade. "At the same time," he says, "there has been excited talk about a group of fresh, unorthodox economists...
Nobody knows the deeper reasons why productivity is declining, let alone so rapidly. The question of whether people on the job are working as hard as before has been the subject of countless barroom arguments and almost no serious study. There is better evidence of other causes...
...letdown is especially upsetting because Apocalypse Now seemed the ideal marriage of a major artist to an important subject. Except for Stanley Kubrick, no other contemporary American director is as gifted as Francis Coppola. In his classic Godfather films, he proved that great themes-power, family, violence, love, morality-could be expressed in the richest language of popular moviemaking...
...sculpture cuts down on what might otherwise have become a tough-but-tender street sentimentality. He is, as the catalogue suggests, a "proletarian mythmaker," though not in a political sense; and no other sculptor working in America today has done more to revive the human figure as a subject...
...surprised to learn that she is sitting with her husband in a room in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu (a favorite stage setting), waiting for a tidal wave (which somehow acquires added metaphysical meaning from the fact that it never shows up) and trying to avoid the subject of whether to get a divorce...