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...contestants, all familiarly insipid, we remain anchored in the comfortable world of parody. With the song "An Atypical American Family," however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard Time," a sort of Blackboard Jungle in reverse, with the students--both hoodlums and teacher's pets--successfully defying a whitehabited singing...
...spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that are obviously disparaging." Examples: doll, weaker sex, the little woman and, in certain contexts, words like housewife, divorcee and sculptress. Gay, says the Times without explanation, is not to be used as a synonym for homosexual...
...Sarah Doll...
Have you seen the "Jerry Ford doll"? You don't wind it up-you help...
Comedians ask: "How can a man who works in an Oval Office paint himself into so many corners?" They tell audiences about "the Jerry Ford doll"-wind it up and it lurches into something. The jokes are even spreading abroad. On an Israeli TV show, "President Chevrolet" greets some Israelis at the White House by saying how pleased he is to "welcome this distinguished group of Egyptians to the Kremlin." Other jokes making the rounds...