Word: bradyseisms
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The purveyors of popular culture have turned the 1970s into the decade of the moment. Fashion has reprised platform shoes, Pumas and bell-bottoms. Movies, TV shows and magazines marketed to the children of those taste-free years revel in their endless allusions to the Bradys and the Partridges.
How she's fixing that: I've been forced to learn the names of all the Bradys and the Brady theme song. I'm learning--I'm trying to catch up.
Married With Children is often called the epitome of the Fox "anti-sitcom"--the Bundys are everything the Bradys were not. But Fox doesn't settle for cultural dichotomies. No, that would be too easy.
Here's a better way to think about it: Imagine if the Cleavers, the Bradys and the Bunkers were tossed raw into an oversized postmodern blender. Now imagine that Roseanne Barr drinks the chunky concoction and vomits into a family-shaped jello mold. Chill and serve Sundays at 9. Voila...
A. If you have kids, how glad can you be that the economy is not supporting the parents of their friends, or indeed of oneself? What gives me satisfaction is to see financial events move in a logic that I understand and advocate. I am frustrated not so much by...