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Struck by Lightning (Sept. 19, CBS, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) What happens when a young high school teacher (Jeffrey Kramer) inherits an old family inn and dis covers that the handyman is Franken stein's monster? Nothing good. This show, an outlandish mixture of Saturday morning cartoon antics and campy horror movie references, has only one asset: Jack Elam's self-deprecating, sex-starved wheeze bag of a monster. Elam's unruly sea of a face makes the late George ("Gabby") Hayes look like Prince Charles. His comic delivery is in the joyful tradition of vintage vaudeville...
Stuck back in Washington during the war, she is just a bit player here. That is dis appointing, but maybe ABC will reunite her, Ike and Kay some day in a sitcom spin-off-a sort of Three's Company Goes to Washington. Next to The Ropers, it would be hot stuff...
China clearly had not won a decisive military victory that would have achieved the stated goals of the invasion: to "punish" the Vietnamese and to dis courage them from future bor der harassments. As military operations go, the invasion was something of a botch. It had been telegraphed in advance, and had thereby robbed the Chinese army of the element of surprise. The Vietnamese were able to keep their regular army units out of action as the Chinese launched "human wave" charges in their assault across the border and early in the righting even employed horseback troops with tootling buglers...
...Bergland's bluntness was startling, so was the demonstrators' cause. Last winter when the small American Agriculture Movement organized its first drive-in at the capital, farm prices were depressed and many U.S. farmers were genuinely strapped. But now the A.A.M. militants, who signaled their arrival by dis rupting traflic and scuffling with police, are crying poor at a time when most farm ers are doing quite well...
...acts have consequences, mindless pleasures lead to reflective pain. Things start badly. Dubin takes Fanny on a quick trip to Yenice, hoping to feed on her vitality and youth, and gets the callow treatment he deserves. Stung, he returns home and holes up for a long, bitter winter of dis content: "He fought winter as if it were the true enemy: if he tore into it the freeze would vanish, his ills be gone, his life, his work, fall into place." Nothing helps. Lawrence eludes the biographer, and the book grinds to a stop. Dubin's wife Kitty...