Strange Days Indeed

â??If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.â?? A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheenâ??s wonderfully acute sense of the absurd.