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...viewing hour"-the sanitized period between 8 and 9 p.m. in which programming is supposed to be free of sex and violence. To meet family-hour standards, CBS had to move popular shows like All in the Family into later time slots, where their ratings dropped; some newer shows (Doc, Switch, Spencer's Pilots) are mired in the bottom...
...brother Doc is involved with Szell, a fact that Babe learns only when Doc comes staggering into his student digs, dying from a crevice that has been carved across his abdominal region. It is not long before Babe finds himself en during the dental ministrations of Szell, suffering horribly while the Nazi per forms some impromptu root-canal work in an attempt to extract information that Babe does not possess...
...other two Yankee starters did come up through the minors, if you consider the California Angels and the Pittsburgh Pirates the minor leagues. But while they were still with their former teams, Ed Gigueroa and Doc Ellis did well enough to get the call from the major leagues, the Big Apple, and they came like bargain-seekers to Filene's basement...
...harder to figure are the people involved in the beauty treatment. For his executive editor, Kramer brought in Ron Rosenbaum, a contributor to Esquire and New Times who had once been a larynx at The Village Voice in the throaty pre-Felker days. He hadn't wanted to play Doc Holiday (hired dentist, that is) to Felker's Wyatt Earp, and got out to do eye, ear, nose and throat on his own. But it seems he's never made it past tonsillectomies--his major contribution to the inaugural issue is a light pan of soft-core pornographic advertising...
Such dogma tends to remind the reader of a remark attributed to the father of analysis: that while a cigar was a phallus it was also a cigar. The humor of Sneezy, Dopey and Doc, the excursions of Hansel cannot be reduced to Freudian simples. The wolf in Little Red Riding Hood is more than the "potentially destructive tendencies of the id"; he is a wolf as well. Of course a child walks in a giant's world. Of course boys and girls dream of transformations into wondrous and powerful creatures, i.e., adults. Of course the tears and truths...