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...Reagan Administration's tough stand comes at a time when the exuberant optimism that followed the July 1979 overthrow of the government of Anastasio Somoza Debayle has all but evaporated. After 28 months in power, a kind of bunker mentality seems to have settled over the nine-member Sandinista national directorate that controls the country. Economically, Nicaragua is on the rocks. Politically, the Sandinista leadership is betraying itself as insecure, arbitrary and determined to hold on to power, come what may. Says one Western diplomatic analyst in Managua: "They've made up their minds they...
Jean Stapleton met Eleanor Roosevelt only once, in 1953, when the former First Lady paid a backstage visit to the Chicago cast of Come Back, Little Sheba. "Everyone was so awed that she had to make all the small talk," recalls TV's Edith Bunker. "And that smile. I could never forget it." Evidently, she not only remembered it but was able to reproduce it for a two-hour CBS special on Eleanor's first years as a U.N. delegate (1945-46). In fact, Londoners were stunned when they saw the actress's commanding figure step...
Between downtown, with its Promethean towers, and suburbia, with its manicured lawns, are the vast gray areas of the American city. This is where Archie Bunker lives...
...this Archie Bunker architecture, as it might be called, has been documented in a 31-panel photographic exhibition titled "Transformed Houses." Currently at Baltimore's Peale Museum, it will tour some 15 cities, including Los Angeles, Bethlehem, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., through 1984. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, it was photographed by Camilo Vergara, 37, a conservation specialist for the New Jersey department of energy, who first noticed Bunker architecture when he worked in blue-collar Jersey City in 1976-77. I'm not interested in creating artistic pictures. "I did want to document this...
...window on a two-story cottage. Not too far away, in Chicago itself, a small house was rusticated, to use architects' jargon, by applying synthetic stone siding to the entire facade. The result was not unlike that of an Alpine goat-herder's hut. Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against uniformity not of his own making. He considers it his right to paint his house coral or plaid if he wants to, much as he would tattoo his biceps or select an inscription for his T shirt...