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’70s: Jive Talkin’ catch phrases from the era

‘Sorry, Charlie!’ Source: “Charlie’s Angels” (TV series, 1976-1981) One could argue that this catch-phrase-turned-put-down originated with the Charlie the Tuna commercials for StarKist Tuna, but we remember it best from the original “Charlie’s Angels” TV show about three beautiful women who alternated between flirtatious damsels in distress and kick-butt private eyes. They never knew the […]

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From the Editor: The good, the bad and the cheesy of one far-out decade

The ’70s were a turbulent decade. Vietnam, Kent State, Watergate, Black Panthers, Patty Hearst, gas shortages, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Three Mile Island disaster, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, inflation, energy crisis, malaise. But that’s not what we’re commemorating this week. What you now hold in your hands (or are reading online for free, in […]