Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first look Follies would seem to be part of the nostalgia boom, which has America glancing myopically backward at its own past (see TIME ESSAY, page 77) and has turned the Manhattan stage into a revival revival. The trend toward old goldies began on Broadway in May 1969 with a production of the Hecht-MacArthur war horse about a journalism that never was: The Front Page, starring Robert Ryan. The play whetted the theater audience's appetite for aging stars and graying gags. After it galloped Three Men on a Horse, Our Town with Henry Fonda, Noel Coward's Private...
...thirds of the gain in G.N.P. was due to catch-up orders in the auto industry after the strike. The trend of overall industrial production was disappointing. After increasing early in the quarter, factory output fell in February and rose only .2% in March, to 165.2% of the 1957-59 base. Moreover, some of the quarter's steel production was merely the result of hedge buying by customers against the likelihood of a strike in August. General Motors, for example, is building a 90-day steel supply, compared with its normal 30-day stockpile. Steel customers are thus creating...
...March and a record-setting 32% in the first ten days of April, keeping alive Detroit's hopes for a 10-million-car year. But in retail stores, appliances, furniture and other consumer durables are selling slowly. Says Ralph Lazarus, chairman of Federated Department Stores: "The trend has not improved in big-ticket merchandise. If it continues this way, we will have an increase only in apparel sales this year...
...these descriptions are, I suppose, more or less accurate. But instead of fleshing out the artistic context, I'm going to relate them to the objective, functional (and inevitably political) use-value of the "trend" film as a cultural commodity...
...Urban schools may be losing popu-larity compared to those in more idyllic locations," Jewett said. "This would be just the reverse of the trend of recent years...