Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where have all the nannies gone? Julie Andrews glows with the aura of good, giving gentle Londoners a lesson in anti-imperialism. And Dick Van Dyke chimney-sweeps his way into the hearts and minds of even the most phlegmatic. By contrast, Jane and Michael's banker father sings, "Tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools." Mary manages to convert him eventually, though. The Politburo would surely censor this film--never has the case for healthy dissent been so eloquently stated. The message is simple: if you start worrying about conquering nations, you easily forget to feed the birds...
What Moore has settled for-playing the bedridden Claire Harrison-is unlike anything she has ever done and especially unlike the two sitcom characters that made her famous: the perky housewife Laura Petrie of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66) and the spunky TV news producer Mary Richards of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77). Says Moore: "I felt an affinity for Claire. She has a wonderful sense of humor, but she also knows very definitely what she is about...
...moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, to disprove his story, no one has ever done so conclusively. Those looking for insight into his character would do better looking at two decades of support for blacks, Hispanics and native Americans than at one more analysis of the tidal currents under Dyke Bridge...