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...Sherman family in Manhattan no longer huddles reverently in front of an ordinary boob tube that sits in the corner like a Buddha. Instead, the Shermans laze back in their den and let a wave of sight and sound wash over them from a new $16,000 audio-video system that does just about everything but get up and fetch the beer and popcorn. When Advertising Executive Sherman watches a football game on the new set, the clamor of the crowd blares at him from four speakers installed around the room, and larger-than-life players scramble across...
...which involves Scotland Yard, the F.B.I., and (of course) Nazis, by punctuating it with a hackneyed score and stagey walk-ons: Clusters of bowler-hatted extras mill around aimlessly, while "protesters" wield suspiciously well-stenciled placards. In addition to its amateurism, the film is cheapened by gratuitous flashes of boob and rump' by its main performers (Selleck, Jane Seymour, and Lauren Hutton...
Satire's delivery agent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, a nay boob. The souffles later collapsed in acrimony...
...Boob Lube Profits...
...stayed at that innocent level, there would be no need for Mr. Shuttleworth. No Gobbler would have been welcome in the days when Kilroy was here. But Kilroy is not here any more and his, in any case, was a benevolent omnipresence. Not so with his successors: TURP, BOOB, HURK, DZ3, SONY, JUNIOR Y, SODA 1, whose names-if they are names-twist and bubble on the flat surfaces of our lives like virulent bacteria. No place in the country is safe, but New York City is actually under siege, its walls tottering under the cumulative weight of the lettering...