Word: tod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nathaniel West (who died in an automobile accident) been writing after the advent of the L.A. freeway system and Ralph Williams used-car lots, one suspects that Tod Hackett's apocalyptic vision in Day of the Locust would have been a mammoth car pile-up rather than "The Burning of Los Angeles." (Instead, Godard has provided us with the end-of-the-world traffic jam in his 1968 Weekend...
...resisted the contemporary trends to class portrayals and clear ideological perspectives in favor of examining more fundamental spiritual maladies, defined by the banality of everday existence. Tod Hackett of The Day of the Locust, recently graduated from Yale, is no less caught up in the Hollywood dream factory than his pan-handler and pimp friends. West grew to condemn not Americans but American ways and manners, evident in the leathery rationalizations of business leaders, as well as the radical polities of many of his friends...