Word: bunkerism
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...TIME edges close to the reason for the strong appeal of All in the Family to the American viewing public. I believe there are two other reasons why the Bunker family appeals to both sides of the political spectrum...
...problem in any settlement would be the status of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi still insists on his departure, while the most that Washington has offered is that he would resign one month before elections were held. In recent weeks, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has reportedly urged Thieu to make overtures to the Viet Cong and neutralist elements that might be included in a future government, but any such suggestion has been met with blustery defiance. In a speech nominally aimed at the French but probably intended for the Americans, Thieu said, "I severely warn...
...uniformly good acting - a rarity on TV - rather than the sometimes tired scripts. The Jewish mother is now a walking cliche, but Bibi Osterwald makes palatable even the thousandth serving of chicken soup. Audra Lindley is just as good as Bridget's mother, an Upper East Side Edith Bunker who sweetly tells her husband that Bridget could not have eloped since she had not yet picked out her silver pattern...
Among the first through that new door for the coming season were-once again-Yorkin and Lear. This time they have a spin-off from Family called Maude, and already it ranks as one of the fall's top prospects. Maude is Edith Bunker's cousin who lives somewhere in upstate New York. As played by the formidable (5 ft. 9 in.), husky-contral-toed Beatrice Arthur, she may do for liberal suburban matrons what Archie has done for urban hardhats...
...first hove into view on a Family episode last season. The entire Bunker family fell ill and Maude took over the household-especially Archie ("You can either get up off that couch and eat your breakfast or lie there and feed off your own fat...and if you choose the latter you can probably lie there for months"). The CBS brass was watching and, in Norman Lear's words, "saw a star." A second episode-in effect a pilot -was concocted, in which Archie and Edith visited Maude on the eve of her daughter's wedding...