Word: zeitgeists
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...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...
Somebody did make Fatal Attraction. And this fall, what if became wow! Striking moviegoers with the startling power of a madwoman in your bathroom, Paramount's lurid romantic thriller is the zeitgeist hit of the decade. It has been box-office champ for each of its first seven weeks in release, and shows little sign of slackening. Last week it reached the $80 million mark, to rank as the year's second highest grossing film. It's the movie with something for almost everybody. Says Michael Douglas, who plays Dan: "People leave saying 'I laughed, I got turned...
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...
...acontextual presentation of pre-cooked information represents the ultimate reduction ad absurdum of fast-food culture. But its not a bland offering, as the biases of the editors are clear. When the hyper-trivial is left aside, the statistics in the Index take potent swipes at the American zeitgeist and all its hypocricy and self-indulgence...
...battle over Bork could be the culminating ideological showdown of the Reagan era. After nearly seven years in office, the President has altered the tenor of the nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view...