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...another "relevant" sitcom spun off the earlier creations of Tandem Productions (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude). Indeed, Florida (Esther Rolle) used to be Maude's maid. Now relocated in a Chicago housing project, she is seen as the matriarch of a black family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There is one adolescent of each gender whose prime function is to be cute and awkward about sexual awakening...
...Burbank said he can not speculate on how long the strike will last. He added that if the strike continues for two or three months, "work will pretty much stop. It becomes un-economical after a point...
...Robert Burbank, project supervisor in the planning office, said it is difficult to say whether the strike will significantly delay construction of the library, but "work on the project will certainly be minimized...
...points. There is a more serious problem with Blazing Saddles, aside from the unprofessional direction: Brooks has confused absurdity with humor. This is especially true of the film's end, when the time frame shifts jarringly back to 1974 and the cast runs amok through sound stages of The Burbank Studios. It is contrived absurdity, the sort that permeates the film. Absurdity is simply not funny unless it complements genuine humor...
Free Fuel. Even so, Union Oil in New Mexico, San Diego Gas & Electric and the city of Burbank, Calif., plan pilot plant projects, each costing more than $1 million. Explains Warren Hinchee, general manager of the Burbank Public Service Department: "We can't get natural gas and the price of low-sulfur oil keeps going up even if we can get it. We think a geothermal facility's cost will be competitive with oil - less than half the price of coal-fired or nuclear generating equipment. And, of course, the fuel will be free...