Word: alf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in Till Death Us Do Part, the model for Family. The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...
...Alf 'n' Family, as the title is meant to suggest to American audiences, was the source of All in the Family. In its original television version, called Till Death Us Do Part, it enjoyed enormous success, but the Alf of the series and of this caustic film (Warren Mitchell) is no lovable oaf like Archie Bunker. He is a meanspirited, loudmouthed, craven boozer who is portrayed by Writer Johnny Speight and Director Norman Cohen with deadly dispassion...
Instead of the growling, affectionate bantering that goes on between the Bunkers, Alf and his wife Else (Dandy Nichols) engage in a lifelong struggle to wound. One Christmas Eve, Else tells Alf that she is pregnant. They cannot recall when or how it could have happened. In the film's best scene, Alf gets drunk at his daughter's wedding, insults the guests and finally passes out. "He ruined my wedding," the bride weeps on her mother's shoulder. "Don't worry," Else soothes her. "He ruined mine...
Only the campaign and the election can prove whether McGovern's proposals are acceptable to the majority. The issues of 1972 alone will present voters with one of the clearest choices between candidates they have been offered since F.D.R. ran on his New Deal innovations against Alf Landon...
...founded a New York market-research firm in 1933 and then became the first pollster to adapt scientific sampling techniques in forecasting an election; he predicted F.D.R.'s 1936 plurality within one percentage point of the popular vote. The Literary Digest-then the big gun of polling-picked Alf Landon as the winner. Though he conducted polls for FORTUNE and commented on public opinion in a syndicated newspaper column. Roper inveighed against "that new breed of animal-the poll-itician...