Word: doda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California was the media star of the '60s, and television was its agent. TV loved "the Coast." It was kinko-pop in Technicolor, with Carol Doda for dessert. Why trek to states out back when legions of braless grandmothers, hirsute cultists and banner-waving Chicanos could be filmed within an hour's commute of Los Angeles or San Francisco? Under the unblinking gaze of TV, California's every permutation assumed cosmic significance...
...Carol Doda...
...DODA DOUGLAS Laguna Hills, Calif...
...derision Wolfe heaps on Felicia Bernstein's Mary Astor accent towers over the loving paean he delivers to Carol Doda's plasticene breasts. But then Felicia is in, really in, and Carol, however notoriously, was always out. Felicia is the obvious target for the satirist's scorn. Wolfe could laugh with poor Carol, at her audience and at herself, but he can only laugh at dear Felicia. And so a sharpness enters his voice where it did not previously exist...
Wolfe can find something to love in the blacks' outrageousness, but, dealing as he is with a type and not an individual (Carol Doda was not meant to be all big-breasted women, but in "Mau-Mau," Chaser is meant to be every black urban leader), his humor descends into racism...