Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to spur saving, Reagan and Congress are bucking a spend-and-spend trend that has been gathering force in the U.S. for several years. Between 1971 and 1975, Americans stashed away an average 8.1% of their after-tax income. During January the amount of money put away was just 5.3% of income. In an era of ubiquitous credit cards and write-yourself-a-loan checking accounts, saving has become as outdated as a Ronald Reagan movie...
...write. In recent months, filmgoers have seen Mailer get violently murdered in Ragtime and Herlihy shoot both his daughter and himself in Four Friends. They have watched Reds in wonderment as Plimpton tries to seduce Diane Keaton and Kosinski helps guide the Russian Revolution. "It has become a trend," says Ragtime Director Milos Forman. "Writers have a hidden affection for show business...
Higgins, who heads the Massachusetts College Republican Union, says that in the outside world the trend is even more pronounced: "Statewide it's been an explosion. Between the spring of 1980 and today, we've gone from six clubs with maybe 200 or 300 members to about 30 clubs right now and 3000 members." Conceding that they are still a very tiny minority at Harvard, the conservatives nonetheless endorse heartily the pop analysts who speak of them with awe. "It's amazing how many people we convince when we speak to them," says Salient Managing Editor Mark A. Sauter...
Popularity is one measure of a performer's achievement, but in this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack...
...press through a ";romantic haze." "Probably not since Spain has there been a more open love affair." The press correctly reported the Marxist origins of the Sandinista movement but believed that it had been taken over by "the sons and daughters of the bourgeoisie . . . The sources quoted on this trend were primarily the non-Marxists themselves, most of whom are now in exile or otherwise disillusioned." The Marxists insisted that they were not strong enough to take over and thus favored a "pluralistic democracy." SANDINISTAS DISCLAIM MARXISM was a Washington Post front-page headline. Perhaps these preconceptions explain what Christian...