Word: bunkerism
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...there have been billionaires like Bunker Hunt and Michener's Quimper, who have lost more money in a year than Harvard spends. Yes, there have been slick, amazingly successful politicians like Lyndon Johnson or Michener's Ransom Rusk and ranches like the King ranch that are so big that it makes more sense to fly accross them than to drive. Texas and its history are full of people and things which shock non-Texans...
From Archie Bunker's weekly tantrums to J.R.'s endless scheming, familiarity on TV has usually bred contentment. TV viewers are creatures of habit--or so, at least, network programmers have staunchly believed since Lucy's heyday. As the new fall season gets under way, however, that time-honored maxim is being challenged. The reason is the sudden re-emergence of a format virtually left for dead a couple of decades ago: the anthology show...
...bombings touched off the worst artillery barrages that Beirut has seen in more than a year. More than 15,000 rounds rained down on both sides of the "green line" that divides the capital into Christian and Muslim sectors. Berri spent a day huddled in the underground bunker that he used for interviews during the TWA hostage crisis in June...
...have done considerable damage as well. Richter, who was already under surveillance by Tiedge's department, is thought to have worked as a control for other East German agents. One of those may have been Betzing. A onetime air-condition- ing repairman at the government's secret wartime operations bunker in the Ahr valley near Bonn, he would have had access to the layout and operations of the facility...
...city's changing demographics and upbeat economic picture are slowly transforming the town's political tendencies. Today the young, affluent professionals fresh out of New England colleges are settling in Cambridge, displacing many of the old-time Archie Bunker-types, and bringing with them what many consider a dangerously conservative outlook...