Lifestyle

	A.	Fads and Fashion
-famous gadgets: Mood rings, lava lamps, Rubik's cube, Sea Monkeys, smiley face stickers, string art, and pet rocks
-Families vacationed in station wagons and everyone wanted an RV

1. Clothing 
-Influence of Sixties hippies was lagged on in Seventies
Men
-shoulder length hair
-bellbottom pants
-hip huggers
-colorful patches
Women
-hot pants
-platform shoes
-granny dresses with high necks
-baggy pants
-derby hats
-gypsy dresses
-knits and denims
-exotic prints
-straight or flared empire line dresses with sequins
- Leisure suits for men became common, and women were fashionable in everything from ankle-length grandmother dresses to hot pants and micro-miniskirts.  

	B. Music
-pop music in many styles

1. Greatest Artists 
-Stevie Wonder
-Led Zeppelin
-Elton John
-Pink Floyd
-Rolling Stones
-The Eagles
-Queen
-The Who
-James Brown
-Aretha Franklin
-Paul McCartney
-John Lennon
-The Jackson 5
-Bob Marley
-Bruce Sprinsteen

	C. Art and Architecture 
1.Earth Art
Alice Aycock
James Turrel
Walter de Maria
Michael Heizer
Robert Smithson 			               								                         	
2, Pop Art
Andy Warhol
David Hockney

3. Famous architecture
-Andrew Wyeth: pyramid of San Francisco's Transamerica building 
-Philip Johnson and John Burgee: Houston's Pennzoil Place
-Paolo Soleri: Arcology

	D. Books and Literature
-general theme of man's alienation from spiritual books 
1. Good examples
-John Updike portrayed characters trying to find meaning in a society spiritually empty and in a state of moral decay. 
-Joyce Carol Oates wrote of the search for spiritual meaning in the contemporary world
-Kurt Vonnegut explored the loneliness of contemporary society 
-One of the strongest literary voices to emerge from this decade was Toni Morrison, who examined the Black American experience as never before  
-The poetry of Rod McKuen was immensely popular

2. Books that define the time
-All the President's Men- Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
-The Culture of Narcissism- American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expecations by Christopher Lasch
-The Hite Report- A nationwide study of female sexuality by Shere Hite
-I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas A. Harris

	E. Film, Theater, Television

- big comeback for movies
-Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta
-The Brady Bunch- Contemporary Family

	A. Best Actors
-Woody Allen
-Al Pacino
-John Travalto
-Marlon Brando
-Diane Keaton
-Clint Eastwood

	F. Sports
-Professional athletes, previously "owned" by their teams, demanded and received the right to "free agency," where they would be able to market themselves to the highest bidder
- By 1979, baseball player Pete Rose was able to negotiate a $1 million per year contract.  
- Before 1970 only a few athletes earned more than $100,000 per year; at the end of the decade hundreds did
- Professional athletes increased their worth by appearing in television and print advertisements and endorsing products.  
	
-14 November: A plane carrying most of the Marshall University team crashes just short of landing near Huntington, West Virginia, killing all 75 aboard, including 37 players.

-Robert W. Peterson's book Only the Ball was White is published. The book brings pressures the Major League Baseball to recognize the African-American players from Negro league baseball by honoring its stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame