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...Bergen, her progress from dithery housewife putting fantasies on paper to multimedia celebrity, living out the American fantasy of success, is gorgeously bold. Her bravura is entirely selfconscious, but this once bland beauty has become one of the screen's most arresting comedians. Somehow she manages to stay likable-maybe even lovable-no matter how her character uses and abuses friends and relatives on her way to the top, which is defined here as a good old-fashioned suite in the Waldorf Towers...
...Best of the West, ABC is making another error by invoking yet again the "gang comedy" spirit of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels, producers of Moore's show, Taxi and The Associates, should know by now that the basic format-a bland central character surrounded by screwballs -works only when the star has a patient and loyal following, as Moore did. Even with the best of casting, the TV audience hardly needs another gang comedy, certainly not a spoof western. Satire, like sacrilege, derives its impact from audience belief in the significance of what...
Finally, instead of concluding the mess, Neame merely returns to the writers' tired mix of bland humor and semi-meaningful moralizing. Loomis and Snow, now buddies, enter the court, grinning. She whispers, "You and I make each other possible." Matthau seems too bored to respond...
...long. Then Helms would remember his 98,000 viewers and look up with a start. He does not smile easily, and his on-camera manner had the slightly sweaty earnestness that TV editorialists, North and South, exude by instinct. Unlike the rest of the breed, however, Helms was rarely bland...
That deceptively bland bit of bureaucratic jargon has become a fighting slogan since Lyndon Johnson made it Government policy in an Executive Order signed in 1965. The order spelled out how the Government would enforce the prohibitions against bias in employment that had been written into the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its mildest interpretation, affirmative action merely requires an employer to attempt to recruit women, blacks, Hispanics and others for jobs usually held by white males. But courts and previous Administrations have increasingly enforced a sterner standard: employers must set numerical goals and timetables-hiring or promoting...