Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning, stopping for a ten-minute break each hour. At the noon break, the radio sputters with orders from the battalion commander to a unit that has made contact with the enemy five miles away. There was an ambush; one American was killed when he walked into an NVA bunker complex. Another is wounded and a helicopter is down. The battalion commander, flying overhead in his helicopter, says he is going in to pick up the downed pilot. His chopper is loaded with electronic gear and it is too heavy for any task that requires acrobatics. "Jesus, Colonel, be careful...
...improbable piece of casting, Raquel Welch is going to play that blank-eyed, block-bodied moppet of the comic strips, Little Orphan Annie, in a CBS-TV special called Funny Papers. Annie's superrich, superreactionary guardian, Daddy Warbucks, will be portrayed by Carroll O'Connor, the Archie Bunker of All in the Family. "We got into a little discussion about just how sexy Daddy Warbucks was," said Raquel. "We wondered how close he should get to Little Orphan Annie, and whether we should indicate that there might have been a little something going on between them. It turned...
Besides the song, the album (Atlantic Records) contains excerpts from a dozen shows, a litany of the Bunkerisms that have won All in the Family the respect of rednecks and the laughter of liberals. To Archie (Carroll O'Connor), the proudly bigoted head of the Bunker household, England is a "fag country," his wife Edith a "dingbat," the Renaissance master Michelangelo "that Dago artist," and Women's Lib a "dreaded disease." As for the theory of evolution, Archie tells his son-in-law Mike (Rob Reiner): "We didn't crawl out from under no rocks; we didn...
...Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled to the bunker 23 miles away. Seismographs registered a shock of the magnitude of seven on the Richter scale. But neither the earthquakes nor tidal...
...first glance, Louis Nephew and his family might appear to be distant Boston relatives of All in the Family's Archie Bunker. A large American flag waves proudly above the small grass and macadam front yard, and during the just completed mayoral campaign, the flagpole was also decorated with a poster boosting Louise Day Hicks, the antibusing candidate. More important, the Nephews recently refused to send their children to a school outside their Dorchester neighborhood, assigned to them under Boston's busing plan. But inside 12 Edson Street the view is somewhat different, and the Nephews seem less...