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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main upholder of the traditional nuclear family this fall is Roseanne. Pudgy comedian Roseanne Barr plays a working-class mom grappling with a dull factory job, three hyperactive kids and her lazy but lovable porker of a husband (John Goodman). Barr's sullen sarcasm -- a cross between Erma Bombeck and Alice Kramden -- is a cry of revolt against years of cheery sitcom parents. Says Mom after the kids run out the door: "Quick, they're gone. Change the locks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The New Season: Boomers and Humors | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

FAMILY: THE TIES THAT BIND . . . AND GAG! by Erma Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 26, 1987 | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...during the geologic age called Early Subdivision, a distracted housewife and sometime journalist named Erma Bombeck discovered what to do with two-week-old tuna casserole: turn the stuff into a howl of a newspaper column. Prepare three times a week; serves 31 million in 900 papers, at latest count. In this eighth book, an amiable reworking of her familiar material, Bombeck is still distracted like a fox and still being funny about her layabout kids and the alien life forms that glow in the back of refrigerators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 26, 1987 | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...anywhere in her snazzy Arizona rancho, it is in the box with those twelve honorary doctorates. Maybe she could do a column on rising to accept her appointment to the President's Advisory Committee for Women, only to feel the elastic turn coward and head south in her . . . nah. Bombeck knows what she is doing, and she honors the passage of time by retelling beloved old knee slappers. Her son, now grown, comes home for a visit, throws the door open, and just the way he used to 15 years ago, looks her in the eye and asks, "Anyone home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 26, 1987 | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...Motherhood, Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Aug. 20, 1984 | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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