Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union are vainly seeking world hegemony. The two superpowers are the biggest exploiters and oppressors of today. The imperialists, and the superpowers in particular, are beset with troubles and are on the decline. Countries want independence, nations want Liberation and the people want revolution-this is the irresistible trend of history...
...surprise hits of the year amply confirmed that escapist trend. Made for a mere pittance ($2.5 million), National Lampoon's Animal House, a high-velocity farce about fraternity life in the '60s, has made $102 million. Crude and silly, Animal House has an abundance of animal spirits, which is what audiences seem to want. Whatever the reason for its success, "Animal House is just the beginning, not the end," says Paramount Head Barry Diller. "That kind of Saturday Night Live consciousness, that visual entertainment, will become a" staple," Another zany sleeper was Up in Smoke, one long giggle...
...from an insurmountable problem: for the first time American audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous An Unmarried Woman; it grossed $62.5 million and made Jill Clayburgh a star. Some pictures did well but not very well, or at least not as well as their backers hoped. Chief among those was The Wiz, the black version of The Wizard...
...interviewing in China. The author of Death of a Salesman spent a month gathering material for a book, Chinese Encounters, a joint venture with his photographer wife Inge Morath. "I found them remote and totally cut off," Miller said of his subjects. Until the government's recent liberalizing trend, they were "sequestered on farms feeding pigs." Although none of the Chinese Miller met knew of his work, there were some recollections of an earlier era. "They wanted to know a lot about people like Clark Gable and Charles Laughton," said Miller. "And Rita Hay worth...
Clearly this social flux consisted more of motion than of movement. The women's liberation movement may turn out to be profoundly epochal, but neither it nor any other trend gripped or provoked the nation as did, say, the now quiescent civil rights crusade. Surely no single label or slogan could possibly embrace such a diffuse drama, and efforts to encapsulate these times in a single-shot insight have been quite unconvincing...