Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Widener Library officials are careful to say that they stopped adding to the collection in the 1970s. They stress that if they had the money, they would re-catalogue the works. But, as Warren Bibliographer F. Nathaniel Bunker says, "It's hard to get enough money to catalogue the books we are acquiring...
...Bunker puts it, "It's kind of a dead collection, as far as I'm concerned...
...married Norman Lear, then a TV writer. In 1957 they moved from New York City to Los Angeles, where she stayed at home and reared their daughters. Although Frances was the inspiration for Norman's acerbic TV character Maude ("All of Norman's work is autobiographical -- Archie Bunker was based on his father"), the show- business community was a peculiar culture that reduced Frances, who did not want to be either a starlet or a producer, to an atrophying, bitterly depressed Hollywood wife. After much therapy, she chose to end her 28-year marriage. (Norman Lear, 66, has since married...
...does not want to concede anything of substance. But Baker's hint in testimony to Congress last week that the U.S. may urge Jerusalem to deal directly with the P.L.O. rather than with "moderate" West Bank Palestinians (who can never be found) may eventually force Shamir out of his bunker. Baker "was rather astute," concedes an Israeli diplomat. "The fact that Baker is clearly not eager to play a central role in our crisis may actually cause Shamir to be more forthcoming with his own proposals when he visits Bush in April...
...anti-Christian" shows. Rakolta's objections to Married . . . With Children managed to miss totally the show's satirical point. This sitcom family -- male-chauvinist husband, unliberated wife, sluttish teenage daughter -- is being lampooned by exaggeration. The same sort of complaints -- just as misguided -- were launched against the bigoted Archie Bunker in the early 1970s...