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...parallels were uncomfortable. Admiral William Adama (Edward James Olmos, a far cry from the cuddly Lorne Greene of the '70s BSG) unflinchingly overrides civilian rule when he sees fit for security; Roslin is not above ballot-box-stuffing to ensure she leads the quest for Earth. In Season 3, when humanity lived under an Iraq-like occupation by Cylons (hoping to reform rather than exterminate the survivors), characters turned to bombings and suicide attacks against Cylons and their human collaborators...
...1950s, an era of postwar trauma, nuclear fear and the self-medicating three-martini lunch, it was anxiety. (In 1956, 1 in 50 Americans was regularly taking mood-numbing tranquilizers like Miltown - a chemical blunderbuss compared with today's sleep aids and antianxiety meds.) During the '60s and '70s, an age of suspicion and Watergate, schizophrenics of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sort captured the imagination - mental patients as paranoid heroes. Many mental institutions were emptied at the end of this period. In the '90s, after serotonin-manipulating drugs were released and so many patients were listening...
...statement, and its setting, cued an uproar, and for several years Kitt got no work in the U.S. Instead she toured the world, including South Africa, where her appearances under the apartheid regime stoked resentment from American blacks and their supporters. (In the late '70s she was welcomed back by President Jimmy Carter and, in 2006, helped President and Laura Bush light the National Christmas Tree...
...Kitt was most comfortable in her first home, the cabaret. At Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle, where she played regularly, she showed that, even in her 70s, her seductive charm was intact. (The proof is in her last recording, Eartha Kitt, Live at the Carlyle.) There she would vamp her way through the maze of tables, cozying up to a new generation of sugar daddies - or maybe the same old one - and singing her hits from a half-century before as if she were still the hot young sensation, still a kitten on the keys...
Hefner, Hugh •opinion of that the most shocking thing in new autobiography by was that time back in the late '70s when a sex toy was "almost swallowed...