Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STRAIGHT TIME Directed by Ulu Grosbard Screenplay by Alvin Sargent, Edward Bunker and Jeffrey Boam...
...course, is that earnest dignity and accomplishment are not very funny, unless they are mocked. TV humor, whether the players are black or white, now turns mostly on chaotic exaggeration, a great deal of it emanating from the workshop and social conscience of Producer Norman Lear. His Archie Bunker, after all, is a kind of blue-collar, honky George Jefferson, his whooping racial slurs rendered cute by being malapropped...
Fans of TV's All in the Family might remember what happened a few seasons back when Edith Bunker sent Archie's favorite chair out for reupholstering. Some modern artist spirited away the old seat, labeled it "A Genuine American Gothic" and put it on sale for $2,000. Now life has imitated TV art, and Archie's chair, along with Edith's, is headed for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Last week during a break in the show's taping, Producer Norman Lear presented the chairs to Carl Scheele, curator of the Smithsonian...
...thus freeing German forces to contend with the Allies in the West. This was probably the master propagandist's final delusion. As Soviet tanks rumbled through Berlin on May 1, 1945 -21 days after his last entry and the day following Hitler's suicide in the Fiihrer-bunker-Goebbels and his wife Magda methodically poisoned their six children and then killed themselves...
...more Americans watching TV more of the time. Many people, some even in TV, think that that interruption may be about the best news of the year. "I'd like to think society is getting healthier," says Norman Lear, the father of Mary Hartman, Maude and Archie Bunker. "People may be talking to each other again...