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Fifty Shades of Tarmac: Adventures with a Mack R600 in 1970s Europe

Andy MacLean

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It was 1972. It was summer - and the living was easy! Arthur Jackson has a good job, no ties and no...

Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies

Ulrich Adelt

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Krautrock is a catch-all term for the music of various white Germanrock groups of the 1970s that...

Canadian Countercultures and the Environment

Colin M. Coates

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Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to...

John Krasinski recommended Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) in Movies (curated)

"I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn’t a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn’t on the radio, I hadn’t experienced it. Then in college I started getting into independent movies, which led me to classic movies, which led me to all this different stuff. The 1970s movies, for me, were only discovered, unfortunately, as little as six or seven years ago. So Kramer vs. Kramer. Some of the greatest writing I’ve ever seen, some of the gutsiest performances. It’s just so quintessential of what the 1970s were for me. There’s just this unfiltered, raw energy, and despite how beautiful that movie is — and obviously, it’s a well done movie — the fact [is] that they’re not making movies like that anymore. [Kramer vs. Kramer is about] a horrible relationship. It’s a really tough situation for the father to be in, and yet [for] everyone who went and saw the movie, there was this weird understanding or commiseration with anger. I think people might have been angrier, or willing to see angry movies."

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