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DAWES IS A GENIUS, half mad probably schizophrenic. He is the first serious representative of the television generation. Instead of quoting lines from books he quotes scenes from moves. But he is no ordinary boob-tube befriending hard, nor is he the acid rock counter-culture stereotype so predominant among his contemporaries in fiction. Mossman reveals this as he carefully describes growing up in Iowa after the war, through the rowdy-but never-un-American fifties and the confusing and almost decadent sixties...
...shuffles onto the home screen, blowzy, blinking, belly bulging, beer in one hand, cigar in the other. He trails mumbled epithets about practically every race, creed or color. He is Archie Bunker of the All in the Family show, the tube's quintessential boob, who each week shrivels bigotry with laughter. Yet to the editors of Focus, the Teamsters' official newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason...
...traffic island waiting to cross into the Yard. She sees a bunch of little kids pedaling by on their bikes. She musters a weary smile. Children, she thinks, innocents, our only hope. And just then, one of the brats leans off his bicycle and pokes her in the boob...
...Boob Tube. The Governors also complained about Agnew's campaign against the press, whose "columnists and commentators" he had labeled "ideological antagonists" the night before. Among those who pressed him on that point were Michigan's William Milliken, Delaware's Russell Peterson and New Jersey's William Cahill, who urged Agnew to abandon his "shotgun" attacks and adopt a more precisely targeted "rifleshot" approach...
...previous day's New York Times reporting that a majority of Governors at Sun Valley were "full of political complaints," and joked grimly that "the conference should have been held at Death Valley." Too many Republicans made provocative statements, he said, simply to get on the "boob tube...