Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forthcoming NATO-wide exercises, known as Wintex 73, which are designed to test the political and civilian emergency measures to be taken by NATO powers in the event of war. The files are believed to deal with everything from how to set up a temporary parliament in a bunker near Bonn to the distribution of food supplies...
...Medical Center once featured a scientist discriminated against because of his sexual tendencies, and ABC's Room 222 portrayed a high school boy accused of being gay. But the real breakthrough probably was made, as in so many other areas, by All in the Family. Last season Archie Bunker discovered that one of his buddies at Kelsey's Bar, a tough ex-football star, was "one of those...
...stock market, Rip learns, has hit 1000, yet the go-go funds and glamour conglomerates are a sere and withered group. Unfamiliar newsworthies are summoned to his attention: Mary Jo Kopechne, Clifford Irving, Arthur Bremer, Vida Blue, Archie Bunker, Angela Davis, Daniel Ellsberg. There are new countries leaping up from the headlines, nations born while he was away...
...tune of nearly $2 billion in records and tapes ($3.3 billion worldwide), making music, for the first measurable time in history, the most popular form of entertainment in America. The television may drone on in the living room, but there is little that youth wants to hear from Archie Bunker or Marcus Welby?especially since it has found both relevance and escape in magical sound...
...parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses into the personal lives of renowned families such as Edward R. Murrow provided in his "Person-to-Person" series, or the televised tragedies of political assassinations, the airwaves have been empty of families that look, sound and "feel...