Word: zeitgeist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s have been such a banal era that cliches are the only appropriate way to comment on it. At least that would explain the odd decision to include an excerpt from the Newsweek article christening yuppies in the program. Just in case it wasn't already in the zeitgeist of everyone in the theater, the article assured the existence of a common culturally stereotyped language. Yet it doesn't seem that even Reddin actually believes that yuppies are without any individual quirks or desires. The actors, who are stiff and who often seem to be unsure of themselves, fail...
...patient and probing search for the Sixties zeitgeist, Gitlin devotes considerable space to the often uneasy relationship between radical politics and radical culture during the period. He argues persuasively that the New Left, the handful of committed student radicals who started SDS and similar groups in the early years of the decade, were the core and catalyst of the mass youth movement that powered the great civil rights and anti-war demonstrations of the mid and late Sixties, as well as the tribal orgasms of Woodstock and the Summer of Love...
...life with skill and decency. Drawing on song lyrics, wall posters, street leaflets, Movement manifestoes and period literature, he creates a compelling picture of a time when world revolution was just around the corner and every political and cultural event seemed to be another manifestation of the same overarching zeitgeist...
...hysterically antimarijuana film Reefer Madness was a camp classic to be mocked by stoned viewers at the midnight show in the local art house. The Zeitgeist of that generation is now wildly reversed. Public figures who used pot at that time express regret for the transgression. Political survival demands that they not offend the new cultural norm. Marijuana use now carries a moral taint...
Warning: Fooling Around May Be Hazardous to Your Health. In its story of a married man who has a quick, hot affair and then lives (just barely) to regret it, the film taps a nerve of anxiety to become the decade' s zeitgeist hit. -- Stardom comes to Actress Glenn Close, whose homicidal character can be seen as an avenging angel of feminism. See CINEMA...