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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Have Been | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

Archie Bunker burst onscreen snorting and bellowing about "spades" and "spics" and "that tribe." He decried miniskirts, "bleeding heart" churchmen, food he couldn't put ketchup on and sex during daytime hours. He bullied his "dingbat" wife Edith and bemoaned his "weepin' Nellie atheist" daughter Gloria. Above all, he clashed with his liberal, long-haired son-in-law Mike Stivic, a "Polack pinko meathead" living in the Bunker household while working his way through college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 29 Years Ago in TIME | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...Archie Bunker burst on-screen snorting and bellowing about "spades" and "spics" and "that tribe." He decried miniskirts, "bleeding heart" churchmen, food he couldn't put ketchup on and sex during daytime hours. He bullied his "dingbat" wife Edith and bemoaned his "weepin' Nellie atheist" daughter Gloria. Above all, he clashed with his liberal, long-haired son-in-law Mike Stivic, a "Polack pinko meathead" living in the Bunker household while working his way through college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...third floor of Weld reminded all of the uncaring eye of statistics. The berserk first-year was dragged off in a straight-jacket, most likely only to return in the fall to find himself with all kinds of floaters in his common room (you know, on account of some dingbat explanation like fewer juniors taking the semester off due to the recession...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Finding Yourself in the Housing Lottery | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...dedicates her lake-clear version of John Fogerty's lovely, lonesome Lodi, and she is a major admirer of Minnie Pearl. Well, land's sake, this album is full of surprises. Fans might not expect this strong and graceful singer to fall about over the comic antics of the dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time, consistency. And a restlessness under the conventional constraints of country music. On Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman (Reprise), her considerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds of Surprise | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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