Seeti Maar Robert De Niro- Taxi Driver By Ratnakar Sadasyula The 1970’s was a decade of disillusionment for the US. It was for the first time it found it’s superpower status under threat. While Vietnamexposed the limitations of it’s military might, back home the Watergate scandal, made people lose faith in their elected Government and the office of the President. In the East, a rejuvenated Japan, rising from the rubble of WW2 , was emerging as an economic superpower in it’s own right, especially in the field of automobiles and electronics. OPEC’s decision to raise oil prices, and...