Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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The '50s and '60s were an enormous golden age.
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I think the '70s was the last pure decade. Once you're in the '80s, you're in the post-modern era,
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That definition of perky is really kind of a sexist statement. We could apply that to a lot of guys as well.
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People are ceasing to believe those things for which we have empirical evidence. That creates a vacuum into which psychics can flow.
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Parents are now talking about kids staying home playing poker instead of going out to movies. It opened up this whole other area.
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It becomes very clear that the oil industry wants to develop 100 percent of the North Slope - the land and the ocean.
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It becomes just another media in which these celebrities work.
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I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?
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From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures ù and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside ù if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.
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For most of the '60s, television was trying to hold the dyke. All of these changes and pressures built up throughout the 1960s and finally burst in January of 1971.
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What I see of change -- to the extent that there is change -- is a shift from trade-distorting payments to non-distorting trade.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension. I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension, ... I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.
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He's been doing this for years. This guy is a completely different category.