Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer negotiations continue between U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker and Panamanian Strongman Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the more obstacles seem to crop up. A conservative bloc led by South-Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond flatly opposes surrender of U.S. sovereignty over the canal; 34 votes in the Senate are enough to defeat a treaty embodying the terms of the Bunker negotiations, and at the moment Thurmond's bloc appears to have them. Thurmond is vocally supported on the scene by Zonians-especially the 4,500 U.S. civilians who operate the canal; some of their families have...
Norman Lear, who gave Archie Bunker to the world, is now in love with Mary Hartman, an idea he thought up seven years ago. He does not see Mary as a soap satire; it is a way "to show humanity and comedy true to life in society-but perceived through a bent glass." He spends more time on the show than on any other project. In fact Lear may even be Mary. Says Chief Scriptwriter Ann Marcus: "If Mary sees an article in a magazine, that usually means Norman saw the article in a magazine." But despite suggestions from Lear...
Near another church, a hard-faced Palestinian officer pointed his leather swagger stick at a blood-spattered wall near an abandoned sandbagged bunker. "From now on," he said, "there will be no more forgiving. The rightists used to say that Lebanon would be a graveyard for the Palestinians. Now it's a graveyard for them...
...Studmuffins. Saturday Night has no organized format. A jumble of political satire, tasteless jokes and off-balance sketches is delivered by the rambunctious "Not Ready for Prime Time Players," a cast of mostly unknowns who have a breezy informality that makes Carol Burnett and Archie Bunker look like waxworks. President Ford falls over all the time on SN, crying, "No problem." Viewers are urged to send samples of marijuana to be tested for quality. Don Vito Corleone is trapped in a therapy session with a blonde who screams, "You're blocking, Vito"; female hardhats rib male passersby: "Hi, studmuffins...
Harvard Police, led by Commander Gorski, burn Claverly Hall to the ground in a pre-dawn raid. Later, addressing the University via closed-circuit TV from his Grays Hall bunker, Gorski say, "It was riddled with crime. We had to destroy it in order to save...