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...Packard's prevailing theme invokes one of Newton's more familiar laws. "The primary drama of recent decades," he says, "is that women have been acting and men have been reacting." Mostly, he finds, women have been acting up. To underscore his point, Packard offers a regional breakdown of the percentage of premarital experience among American women: 57% in the East, 48% in the West, 32% in the South, 25% in the Midwest. The geographic conclusion is obvious: traditional behavior dies hard in the South and Midwest, while liberation is more readily embraced in the sophisticated East...
Above all there is a breakdown, or at least a confusion, of the old ideological lines. The distrust of Big Government, long the special property of the Republican Party, has spread to unexpected quarters...
...thoughts can be masticated pretty quickly. Sample: "In a world of very rapid technological change, the sense of identity is not only threatened but shattered over and over again." There are one or two rather provocative notions. The murder of Bobby Kennedy, postulates McLuhan, resulted from a breakdown between the new and old world of communication. In suggesting arms for Israel, Kennedy "spoke from a spacious and underpopulated world of highly fragmented, individualist culture-but he was also speaking straight into the ear of a highly tribalized corporate culture...
...final breakdown of the worlds comes in a violently sensual display of color. Audran, coming out into the open, crosses the barriers Chris has established between his lives, destroying forever his success as a hidden prime mover. The lush blues we identify with Christine and, we realize in retrospect, with the dead Paola, are disrupted by Audran's red dress, then by the blackness of the stocking with which Christine and the other girls are strangled. The violence of the deed is muted by the awesome lushness of the images, textures of decor which make murder a forbidden ritual...
...particular, recently revamped its news format to make room for more discussion and debate, interspersing its regular coverage with the broadcast equivalent of columns. Publisher Bill Moyers, former White House aide, recently went on camera to predict that the next President will be faced with "a national political nervous breakdown." Critic Marya Mannes razzed fashion models who have "no visible sexual equipment." Other commentaries have ranged from the trivial to the trenchant. Samples...