Word: feuds
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Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to Beaver. During the program, the performers behave much as they did on their original shows, fostering the illusion that TV families never break up or die, but live on blissfully in real life as well as on reruns...
...FEUD by Thomas Berger; Delacorte; 265 pages...
...Feud is further evidence of how deeply Berger remains committed to his marvelously skewed sense of language and the hapless bipeds who use it. The novel is set in the small-town America of the late 1930s, a place and time frequently celebrated in nostalgic memory. It has been said that life was less complicated then and that the Depression bound families to a common cause. Perhaps, but in Berger's small neighboring towns of Millville and Hornbeck, such pretty thoughts do not have a prayer against ornery pride, low animal cunning and the mayhem loosed by the crazed...
General Hospital and Family Feud had better get ready for some heavy competition, because the state House of Representatives will move onto daytime television by January with live, "gavel-to-gavel" broadcasts from the floor...
...were so many Republicans wearing frowns last week? Because the Grand Old Party, badly split over the Administration's deficit-plagued budget and on whether to withhold taxes on interest and dividends, was having a family feud. Cabinet members were fighting with each other. So, too, were presidential aides. The President was scrapping with Republican leaders in the Senate, and G.O.P. Senators were slipping into squabbling factions. The infighting threatened to throw the congressional budget-making machinery, which is squeaky and erratic to begin with, into chaos...