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...Motherhood, Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Oct. 3, 1983 | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...Motherhood, Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Sep. 26, 1983 | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...target for parody. And the subjects he covers on his weekly blurb at the end of the CBS news show "60 Minutes" range from the obvious and dull to the obtuse and dull. People who think Andy Rooney is really funny are the kind of people who read Erma Bombeck, people who subscribe to Good Housekeeping, who still laugh at jokes about the Ayatollah Khomeini and the high price of gasoline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...But Not Few Enough | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...Erma Bombeck, humorist, on what women discuss in beauty parlors: "Pretty much the same things men talk about in bars, only they don't care about who won the pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 30, 1981 | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Meanwhile, on Good Morning, the show's own medical expert, Dr. Tim Johnson, may be talking about herpes. Author Erma Bombeck may be trying to elicit a few laughs with her stories of life in untamed suburbia. One of Good Morning 's greatest assets in the second hour is Mary Ellen Pinkham, who has probably contributed even more to domestic felicity than Sara Lee. It was Pinkham who disclosed to the country that Saran Wrap is easier to control if it is put into the freezer (it does not cling to itself when cold) and that cottage cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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