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Nonetheless, to a world grown weary of cold-war fulmination, the thunder out of Hanoi or Havana often has a curiously chimerical ring; the Iron Curtain itself seems less an instrument of terror and repression than a gigantic cobweb of cliche. Particularly to the generation that has reached voting (or at least debating) age since the early coups and crises of the postwar era, the sounds of struggle appear almost as irrelevant and unreal as fragments of a horror tale recollected from childhood. Many of their elders see Communism in the confused, self-doubting terms that have characterized the recent...
...topical monologue, maybe kidding the Mets ("The only team that has to fight back from a three-run lead"), or poking fun at the New York World's Fair's doldrums ("They've got a belly dancer at the Moroccan Pavilion now, but she has a cobweb in her navel"), or satirizing TV ("The television business is tough, as I was saying just the other day to my waiter, Jim Aubrey...
...tribal and religious elements were introduced into what once was a relatively tidy equation. The new math of the U.N. involved sets and subsets incomprehensible to minds raised in the school of Big Power politics. At the same time, the cold war had also changed. Said Dean Rusk: "The cobweb syndrome, the illusion that one nation or a bloc of nations could, by coercion, weave the world into a single pattern, is fading into limbo...
...ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Halloween with the Addamses is suitably ghoulish when Morticia and Gomez welcome bank robbers to their cobweb-hung manse as trick-or-treaters...
...Addams Family are successful incarnations of the necrogeists in Charles Addams' cartoons. Their house is a great Victorian cobweb with a bear rug that growls when stepped on, a stuffed sailfish that has the legs of a child protruding from its mouth, and a mailbox with a hand in it that receives letters. Including guillotined dolls and thoroughbred spiders that are raised by the children, the props are obviously first-rate, but the people are even better. Beautiful Carolyn Jones plays the mother, Morticia, with a chilling verve that should make any dead-blooded man want to share...