Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Moreau seemed surprised by her own reaction to the female world of fashion magazines. "I loved working on the magazine," she says, "because it's full of women. Really, I mean it. I found I loved working with women because they do serious things lightly...
...ripostes, his ardently skilled desire to be entertaining-all these have made him the leading U.S. comic playwright for more than a decade. But like the clown with the yen to play Hamlet, Simon has had the urge, and been critically urged, to try his hand at more serious drama. The result is The Gingerbread Lady, a schizoid play in which the dramatist is so busy applying plasters of wit to woefully bruised psyches that the evening is doubly robbed, both of honest hurt and buoyant humor...
...perhaps 1%" on electric bills to speed new ways of generating power compatible with the environment. Until that luminous day comes, Luce is prepared to take an antigrowth position that other utility men might consider heresy. Urging New Yorkers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances, he raises "the serious question of whether we ought to be promoting any use of electricity...
...they commoners or royalty; this was true of a Bach cantata or a Mozart serenade. Beethoven changed that. As the father of musical romanticism, he made music an expressive function of himself. Later composers carried the cult of music for music's sake too far, and divorced "serious" composition from the interests of large audiences. One reason that every year is a Beethoven year, not just 1970, is that no composer since has been able to match the towering combination of talent, energy and soul that made his self-expression worth listening...
...wide variety of industries fell into serious trouble in 1970. Moviemakers struggled unsuccessfully to overcome the handicap of lower labor costs and government subsidies that have lured American producers overseas. About half of the films shown in the U.S. this year were foreign-made. Short of cash, many studios sold off valuable real estate, chopped production and consolidated offices. About 80% of the members of the Screen Actors Guild had no work. Quipped Bob Hope: "The only actor still working in California is Ronnie Reagan...