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...Laura Z. Hobson, who prodded the public conscience with her 1947 novel about anti-Semitism, "Gentlemen's Agreement," complained that "you cannot be a bigot and be lovable." Lear replied that bigotry was most common and most insidious when it occurred in otherwise lovable people. Since then, Northwestern University Sociologist Charles Moskos has supported both the Bunkers and the de-Bunkers by arguing that "Family's" humor cuts two ways: "It is a cheap way for tolerant uppermiddle-class liberals to escape their own prejudices while the bigots get their views reinforced." Lear concedes that the humorous treatment of bigotry...
Then, for the maximum degree of difficulty, I went after my ancient VCR, which doesn't even have a remote. It's a legacy from a woman I dated for about five minutes back in 1993--and it was old when she bought it. Ladies and gentlemen, for 10 years I've had to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to fast-forward through the sad parts in On Golden Pond, but the SL-8000 had my VCR begging for mercy in just under 10 seconds. That did it. I swept all my now superfluous...
...home of "Survivor" also has a major reality launch planned. "The Amazing Race," despite a title that conjures up a whimsical mid-'60s Disney film involving eccentric gentlemen in hot-air balloons, promises to be "'Survivor' on speed." 22 people, in teams of two, race around the world undertaking challenges and dares; the stragglers are eliminated each week. The twist: all the pairs already know each other and thus have back stories - the pals from New York, the bickering mother and daughter, the separated couple trying to reconcile and the gay partners of 11 years. (Another thing you generally...
...Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...ladies and gentlemen, when O-Town (Ashley Parker Angel, Erik-Michael Estrada, Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood and Dan Miller), the boyband of ABC-TV’s “Making the Band” infamy, arrived in Bean-Town, and this city would never be the same. Never before has this historical center of democracy borne witness to a musical outfit so devoid of singing ability, good looks, humility or even charm...