Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idealism of the '60s fades into the pre-professionalism of the '70s, a theme reiterated by most of the Business School deans, professors and students contacted yesterday was that young college graduates are increasingly seeing business as a means of "achieving," changing--and earning--without losing their ethics or identities...
...unbeautiful ones-with thigh-high socks and knee-high socks, cuffers (a.k.a. anklets) and the leg warmers that dancers have worn for years. One or two or all of these furbelows may be worn at the same time, and they can be used to make endless variations on a theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every...
...athletes making too much money? they wanted to know. Are high salaries ruining sport? With first basemen earning $250,000 a year, can anarchy be far behind? I had been traveling. Boston. Minneapolis. Pittsburgh. Toronto. Fort Worth. The landscape and the weather and the accents changed. The theme of the questions persisted. Money...
...soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people who go to these films have to be sports fans, and jock-sniffers as a general rule aren't very concerned with internal meanings, just the final score...
...FILMS seem to be the rage these days, no doubt owing to the tremendous success of last year's Rocky. They do have an undeniable appeal. Everyone loves the little guy who overcomes tremendous odds to become a hero, right? If any more of these films are made, the theme will be beaten to a hasty death, which seems inevitable (and desirable) since Hollywood will only risk money on a proven formula; witness the endless sequels to witless movies that bring in the bucks. Benson will probably come up with Son of One on One next year and follow that...