Word: boob
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...actors exaggerate their gestures grotesquely, as if performing R-rated charades for the nearsighted. Too Close for Comfort marks a milestone in TV history: the eclipse of a fine comic actor, and the full festering of the smutcom. Never has the medium more fully deserved its reputation as the boob tube...
...three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described...
...story works in Kosinski's novel because the author, like the Grimms, writes caressing, witty words while he brazenly plunders his frail theme. Ashby's direction of Kosinski's script slips at times from wit to slapstick but generally maintains a simple, even tone reflective of his hero, the boob-tube boob...
...perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found no more sense in Faulkner than in "the wop boob, Dante." He never understood the scars of the Depression and compared the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt to those of "a snake-oil vendor at a village carnival...
Since then he has been on the boob tube like a teen-ager's idol. The only trouble is, he comes over with as much umph as a dish of grits...