Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maude's first antagonist was Archie Bunker, when she stormed onto All in the Family two seasons ago as a visiting cousin. Since spinning off on her own last year, Maude has stirred things up with shows on the legalization of marijuana and the sham of radical chic, as well as a two-part episode on abortion that roused a particularly shrill outcry when it was rerun over the summer (TIME...
Next door to the heavily fortified command bunker is the town hall. A small group of tough Cambodian special-forces troops walked in, exuberantly displaying a .50-cal. machine gun recovered from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first...
Some of this may be funnier than the networks intended, but if not, the viewer can try one of the new sitcoms. Several comedy half-hours have jumped aboard Archie Bunker's blue-collar bus−one, NBC's Lotsa Luck, quite literally. The show stars Dom DeLuise as an ex-bus driver promoted to clerk in the lost-and-found department. (In its first episode last week, Lotsa Luck stretched Bunker bluntness into common vulgarity with a plot that revolved entirely around a purple-lidded, tangerine-colored toilet.) Just as DeLuise contends with his crotchety/lazy/dumb family relations...
With the same offhanded shrug, he dismisses the spectre of such early-squandered arms as Bob MacCool and Wally Bunker. "It doesn't bother me. I'll just go out and do my thing once or twice a week. They're taking good care...
...Stalin quietly chewing a pipe, but Hitler noisily chewing a carpet. The details slip; not so many people nowadays know or care who Baldur von Schirach was or what the Roehm putsch signified. But the broad trajectory of Hitler's career, let alone its grisly climax in the bunker, is still as familiar and very nearly as mythic to Westerners as the deeds of Antichrist were to men in the Middle Ages...