In the 1970s, a group of activists and engineers calling themselves the New Alchemists believed the warnings of imminent resource depletion and starvation.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

The 1950s proved a golden age for Lions rugby, although only in the 1970s did style begin to match the substance of victory in New Zealand and South Africa.

After becoming New York's de facto Red Light District in the 1960s and 1970s ( as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy ), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.

Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, known now as NYC & Company.

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

The King-James-Only Movement — or more correctly, movements, since it has many variations — became a divisive force in fundamentalism only as conservative modern Bible translations, such as the New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) and the New International Version ( NIV ) began to appear in the 1970s.

* BBS Productions, highly influential film production company of early 1970s New Hollywood

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

Its initial audiences were club-goers from the African American, Latino, gay, and psychedelic communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

* The Enemy ( New Zealand band ), a 1970s punk band from Dunedin, New Zealand

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

In addition, a distinction is sometimes drawn between the avantgarde " Young German Cinema " of the 1960s and the more accessible " New German Cinema " of the 1970s.

by Wolfgang Becker, Head-On by Fatih Akin, and Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel have arguably managed to recapture the provocative and innovative nature of 1970s New German cinema.

The 1960s were the peak years of the Japanese New Wave movement, which began in the 1950s and continued through the early 1970s.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

The Goddess movement is a loose grouping of social and religious phenomena growing out of second-wave feminism, predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in the 1970s, and the metaphysical community as well.

The term " sacred feminine " was first coined in the 1970s, in New Age popularizations of the Hindu Shakti.

Under his New Order ( Indonesia ) | New Order administration, the country enjoyed the sustained economic development from 1970s to 1996.

During the late 1970s in New York City, Jarmusch and his contemporaries were part of an alternative culture scene centered on the CBGB music club.

In the 1970s, sociological scholars Riley Dunlap and William R. Catton, Jr. began recognizing the limits of what would be termed the Human Exemptionalism Paradigm.

In the 1970s, the government implemented the New Economic Policy ( NEP ), designed to be a more aggressive form of affirmative action for the Bumiputra than Article 153.

The NEP was introduced in the wake of the energy crises of the 1970s.

It was not until the premiership of Pierre Trudeau that the idea of a Triple-E Senate first attracted mainstream attention, after the Liberal dominated federal parliament passed legislation establishing the National Energy Program ( NEP ) in the wake of the energy crisis of the 1970s.

Inspired by Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and Erving Goffman's conception of the interaction order, CA was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s principally by the sociologist Harvey Sacks and his close associates Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson.

In conception, this is far closer to the AVE Mizar of the early 1970s than to Taylor's designs, the vehicle portions of which were purpose-designed and built.

The Cyrillic version was designed in-house in the 1970s at D. Stempel AG, then critiqued and redesigned in 1992 under the advice of Jovica Veljovic.

From the 1970s, English-speaking academics and journalists also began to use the word " critique " not only as a noun, but as a verb ( e. g. " I have critiqued the idea ", instead of " I have criticized the idea ").

* 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.

Libya long claimed the Aouzou Strip, a strip of land in northern Chad rich with uranium deposits that was intensely involved in Chad's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.

Territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nautical miles ( 185 km ) from coastline as defined by 1898 treaty ; since late 1970s has also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea up to 285 nautical miles ( 528 km ) in breadth.

A survey conducted in the mid 1970s indicated that of those participants who claimed not to believe in religion, one-third had a Buddhist or Shinto altar in their home, and about one quarter carried an omamori ( an amulet to gain protection by kami ) on their person.

* December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.

The economic crisis and unemployment aggravated the crime rate, as evidenced by the increasing frequency of phenomena such as kidnappings and political subversion: between the 1970s and the early 1980s, some communist groups, the most famous were Barbagia Rossa, and the Sardinian Fighting Movement ( MAS ), claimed several terrorist attempts.

In the book Songs They Never Play on the Radio, James Young, a member of her band in the 1980s, recalls many examples of her troubling behaviour due to her " overwhelming " addiction – and also that Nico claimed to have never taken the drug while with the Velvets / Factory scene but only began using during her relationship with Philippe Garrel in the 1970s.

In the early 1970s, J. Hoberman claimed that Meshes of the Afternoon was a commentary on film noir.

Professor Carberry also appeared in an American Express commercial in the 1970s .< ref >; his position and institutional affiliation are given as " Professor of English, Brown University at San Diego ", and the paper is claimed to be a reprint from The Journal of Popular Culture.

During the early 1970s, several homeowners claimed that they were approached by local real estate agents and told that their neighborhood was becoming increasingly African-American and home values could decline ; a practice known as blockbusting.

However, he was also known for his prolific drug use ( William Claxton claimed he smoked marijuana almost every day ; others said he used a tremendous amount of cocaine in the early 1970s ).

Zündel gained prominence and respectability during the 1970s as spokesman for Concerned Parents of German Descent, a group which claimed that German-Canadians and their children were the target of discrimination due to anti-German stereotyping in the media.

who is believed to have killed over 200 patients in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, claimed at least one of his victims while working as a doctor at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre between March 1974 and September 1975.

* Freelance terrorist Carlos the Jackal claimed responsibility for three car bomb attacks on French newspapers accused of pro-Israeli bias during the 1970s.

Later, women emerged who claimed to be strongly influenced by the Beats, including Janine Pommy Vega in the 1960s, Patti Smith in the 1970s, and Hedwig Gorski in the 1980s.

In Barris's self-described " unauthorized autobiography " Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, originally published in 1984, Barris claimed to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) as an assassin in the 1960s and the 1970s.

They claimed that when she won her honorary Oscar in the 1970s she signed a contract covering the Coquette statuette as well.

He started the TM-Sidhi programme, in the late 1970s that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace.

Heavily publicized, it became the highest-rated television episode of the 1970s, a record it held until the miniseries Roots claimed that title in 1977.

Most of the ANL's leafleting and other campaigns in the 1970s were in opposition to far right groups which it claimed were not just racist but fascist, such as the National Front, an organisation led by John Tyndall who had a long history of involvement with openly fascist and Nazi groups.

Many Lower East Side artists worked at the store, including Patti Smith – who claimed not to have liked the experience because it " wasn't very friendly " – and Tom Verlaine, both rock musicians of the 1970s.

" Sightings were first reported in the 1970s, although it became notorious in 1983, when a South Molton farmer claimed to have lost over 100 sheep in the space of three months, all of them apparently killed by violent throat injuries.

When it was later leased, one opposition MPP claimed that Ontario had spent $ 100 billion since the early 1970s acquiring the land that it sits on.

One of his accusers, former seminarian Stephen Cook, claimed to have been abused by Bernardin and another priest in the 1970s.

The Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman claimed that Aftonbladet was the main media force behind echoing his alleged financial misdeeds, which finally led to Bergman's self-imposed exile to Munich in the 1970s.