Word: bunkerism
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...often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted with subjects worth talking to-Saul Alinsky, Charles Evers-are the magazine's quality product. But they seem to belong to another world: the real one. Playboy, alas, has become the voice of sexist Middle America, and Hefner its Archie Bunker. When Playboy ventures into the '70s, it is with tokenism -a modest amount of pubic hair on his Playmate and four-letter words in his prose...
...began encircling Angkor in an attempt to cut off the Communists' supply lines and starve them into submission. It was an uneven contest. The Communists could strike out at any point on the city's 60-mile perimeter, and had all the defensive advantages of an underground bunker complex. Government troops, meanwhile, were under strict orders not to direct artillery fire at the city and to use even their rifles sparingly...
...Archie Bunker with a Negro niece...
...television sets, many cartons of purified water, motorized reclining chairs, numerous pots and pans. Said CBS-TV Producer Don Hewitt, who was vacationing on Nassau and happened to see part of the move: "It didn't look like a rich man's stuff. It looked like Archie Bunker's stuff. There was an old electric stove and electric heater and this sort of cheap-looking vinyl couch...
Racial jokes are also the staple of television's other top comedy show, All in the Family-but with a difference. Where Flip Wilson kids conventional prejudices by turning them inside out, Family's archbigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) is a living compendium of those prejudices. To see how Archie might react to Flip, TIME asked Family Producer-Writer Norman Lear to imagine a scene in the Bunker living room after the family has watched Flip's show. Lear's script...