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Down two games in the match and 18-9 in the third game, the Crimson was in danger of being swept for the second time in four days. However, the resolve of junior middle blocker Alex Kowell and the collective will of the beleaguered team shone through the adversity...
...1970’s, “All In the Family.” The working-class Bunker family, though less educated and refined than the Keatons, was just as diverse politically. The frequent debates between bigoted conservative Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael mirror those between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents. The uniqueness and cultural importance of “Family Ties?...
...Keatons were by no means a stereotypical yuppie family, let alone a typical sitcom family. The Keaton parents were hippies to the bone—Elyse a folk-singing flower girl and Steven a draft-dodging pacifist. To their dismay, they birthed four yuppies-to-be, led by one Alex P. Keaton, a card-carrying Young Republican with a blazer over his shoulder, a tie around his neck and a picture of William F. Buckley on his wall...
Though political humor pervaded Keaton dialogue—when he’s asked by his girlfriend’s father, “What are you, a dancer, poet, communist?” Alex replies, “No sir, I’m against all those things”—the show was not concerned with taking a political stance. Politics were always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with...
...Alex F. Rubalcava ’02 is a government concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...