Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leukemia. At last! an honest to god movie, instead of a film. Now you could have a war movie which wasn't anti-war (the Deer Hunter), a movie which wasn't anti-military (Stripes) and Raiders of the Lost Ark which wasn't anti-anything. And with the trend of fantasy-fullfillment movies usurping ticket sales, it was only so long until someone came along and glorified Wealth. That's where (at last) Arthur comes...
...enough accountants and skilled investigators to unravel the major international drug rings. Today there are four times more heroin addicts in the U.S. than there were when the agency was created in 1973, and this is directly contributing to the surge in violent crime. Indeed, the alarming trend may accelerate: a new jolt of heroin from the poppy fields of "the Golden Crescent"-Iran, Iraq and Pakistan-is starting to flood the East Coast...
...second trend couldn't be more different. Coming on the heels of the more public-minded 1960's, the '70s saw an upsurge of selfish attention to, well, the self. Voluminous bestsellers on exercise, fitness and sexual joy were snapped up like so many peanuts at a corner bar. And when John Q. Public wasn't eyeing his calories as instructed by countless handbooks, he was spending more money on outrageously expensive fashions than the entire race of Bedouins since their descent from Ham. Gurus of this 'Me Decade' stressed the gratification of the individual--particularly themselves...
...relied on excessively by corporations to show them what to support, either through challenge grants, or through direct support. I do not feel that these corporations are capable of evaluating the arts themselves...When the private sector is left to decide for itself, there will be a definite trend toward funding what is traditional rather than what is new. Like most bureaucracies, the NEA should be trimmed, of course, though not 50 per cent...
...drugs might seek the longer-lasting boost of amphetamines, or "speed." Instead, coke fuels the victory parties, fills the void when the applause is over, coaxes away inhibitions. The man in the moon sniffing coke from a spoon: under that tableau at New York City's Studio 54, trend-setters used to disco all night...