Word: bunkerism
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Affluent parents of Boston and thereabouts know the town for the Putney School. It has tutored children of the famous, including some Kennedys. The area holds other well-known people, including retired Senator George Aiken, former Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Painter Jim Dine. Ted Williams is said to visit an ex-wife occasionally in these parts...
...Archie Bunker's niece will soon have a new television role. Danielle Brisebois, 12, who plays the pixieish Stephanie on the CBS show Archie Bunker's Place, will star in commercials touting the Tinkerbell line of powders, perfumes, lip gloss, nail polish and other beauty aids for girls ages three to 14. This is the latest marketing ploy in the $100 million-a-year world of kiddie cosmetics...
...months later. The R.D.F. consists of exactly 242 officers operating out of a once abandoned bunker and six trailers tucked away in a steamy corner of MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa. There the officers are drafting plans to combine Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine units that might be assigned to them in a crisis?up to 200,000 men in all?into an effective expeditionary force, and they are tackling their task with a zesty disrespect for bureaucratic tradition. Marine General P.X. Kelley, the R.D.F.'s first commander (he is about to be succeeded by Army Major General...
...easy to see why. Standing next to a hot, vibrating, metalworking machine eight hours a day is demanding and physically taxing, but it is also boring and often dangerous. Blue-collar workers are seldom depicted as heroic in popular American culture; indeed, like the television characters Archie Bunker and Laverne and Shirley, they are frequently ridiculed...
...less brawny than recent arrivals in the Bond series was an inadequately evil set of villains. "Jaws," the goon of recent Bonds, has mercifully departed, but he has not been replaced by anyone of commensurate ghoulishness. One hit man, in fact, bears an uncanny resemblance to Rob Reiner, Archie Bunker's meat-head son-in-law and a decidedly unterrifying figure...