Word: bunkerism
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...ensuing lull, ARVN troopers scavenged sandbags from a bunker that had been blown apart by an enemy mortar round. Some soldiers dug their fox holes deeper while others stared impassively at the immobile grass. Over campfires fueled by empty ammunition boxes hung pots of homemade noodle-and-vegetable soup...
...shuffles onto the home screen, blowzy, blinking, belly bulging, beer in one hand, cigar in the other. He trails mumbled epithets about practically every race, creed or color. He is Archie Bunker of the All in the Family show, the tube's quintessential boob, who each week shrivels bigotry with laughter. Yet to the editors of Focus, the Teamsters' official newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason...
...Augusta's parking lot, where Trevino used his red Dodge Charger as a locker room and interview post. Apparently miffed over the near eviction of his driver-valet for not wearing the proper badge during a practice round, Trevino gave the clubhouse wider berth than a curl-lipped bunker. Nicklaus, of course, could not. He had to collect the winner's check of $25,000 and another green jacket...
...Laughs. The show was created by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, the team that produced All in the Family, and like Family, Sanford is adapted from a successful BBC series. Foxx's Sanford is at times a sort of black mirror image of Family's bigoted Archie Bunker. When he spots a white nurse waiting to give him his chest...
...four-year-old Glen Campbell Show are going, and ABC is twitching its nose and making the eight-year-old Bewitched disappear from prime time. Some newer favorites are spawning the inevitable offspring. CBS is cashing in on All in the Family's success by giving Mrs. Bunker's Cousin Maude her own show. The ethnic emphasis begun by Family is showing up in several new entries. The Catholics and Jews are getting CBS's Bridget Loves Bernie, a variation on Abie's Irish Rose, which soft-petaled mixed marriages on Broadway...