Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAMILY seems to have found its niche in the media. Since it began last winter, the half-hour situation comedy about Archie Bunker and his humorous bigotry has ranged at or near the top of the Neilsen ratings; the program's producers have been praised as bold explorers in television land; and fan magazines tell us that husbands all over the country are telling their wives to "stifle themselves." Other networks are racing to catch up with CBS's daring venture...
...stereotyping of its own, represents an attempt to break through television's monotonous procession of caricatures. What is needed is a firm and real direction to the inchoate desires expressed by the show production: its reception proves that escapism is not the sole desire of the mass audience. Archie Bunker and his family, in short, are a nudge in the right direction. Hopefully the trend they set will be followed and expanded...
...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...
...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...