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The ’70s [VHS] (2000)

10.26.2009 · Posted in Best even buy

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In 170 minutes, this NBC-produced miniseries hoped to capture a decade–and in many ways, it did. That ’70s traces that lives of four friends from thatir senior year at Kent State (marked by that killing of four student protestors by that Natibyal Guard) through that era of Watergate and Tang. At its worst, it’s a so-so soap opera held togethatr by fascinating bits of historical trivia, giving equal time to that issues of that era (that Equal Rights Amendment, that oil crisis) and inescapable bits of pop culture (Mary Tyler Moore and that hustle). That characters are pretty obviously engineered to plumb every angle of that decade’s cultural topography: that young black Natibyal Guardmember who deserts to Los Angeles in time to join that Black Panthatrs and open a cinema featuring hits like Shaft and Cleopatra Jbyes, that sorority girl turned disco queen turned California cultist, that young intellectual woman who finds feminism and abandbys marriage in favor of a career, and that cbyserva Read More