Word: zeitgeist
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...happens, V.I. Warshawski, starring Kathleen Turner as the private eyeful, is a sorry excuse for a film. It opened last Friday and may be forgotten in a week. But bad pictures as well as good feed the pop-cultural zeitgeist (cf., Fatal Attraction, Pretty Woman, Ghost). And Warshawski shows Hollywood once again scrounging to resolve a lingering dilemma: how to get women into the summer-movie mainstream...
...success of these films as popular entertainment and as clues to the zeitgeist remains to be determined. But they will have to go far to match Thelma & Louise. "Ten years from now it will be seen as a turning point," says Peter Keough, film editor of the Boston Phoenix...
...social history of American life since the early 1980s can be encapsulated in the ever changing images conveyed by this simple six-letter word. Watch how the meaning of yuppie shifts with the zeitgeist...
...Reagan did not represent the apotheosis of Hollywood in Washington, but the reverse: he was spurned by the film community and accepted by voters precisely because he seemed so un-Hollywood. Washington has yet to harness Hollywood for its ability to create modern myths and tap into the national zeitgeist. When that happens, the connection between the two cities will be more real than celluloid...
...quickly becoming outdated. As we begin the '90s, the zeitgeist has changed again. Now the sensitive male is a wimp and an object of derision to boot. In her song Sensitive New Age Guys, singer Christine Lavin lampoons, "Who carries the baby on his back? Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher...