Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second bid for the Senate, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Harriet Woods fell to Republican former governor Christopher "Kit" Bond, in a race that ran closer than was expected...
...years. The genre's archetype -- stable, well-scrubbed, usually small- town families that deal with minor domestic problems that are always resolved, gently, before the final credits -- was established in such classic series of the 1950s and early '60s as Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet and The Donna Reed Show. In the early 1970s, under the influence of Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons), TV families became more realistic and contemporary, their problems more substantial and socially relevant. But as the decade waned, TV moved toward increasingly outlandish family match-ups (Diff...
...coalition of special-interest groups can no longer do the trick. Several local and state Democratic candidates have run recently with great success emphasizing workfare programs and the clean-up of hazardous-wastes. The victories of Mark Green and Bella Abzug in New York, John Lewis in Georgia, and Harriet Woods in Missouri proves that there is still an audience out there receptive to a strong, principled liberal message...
...world of Ozzie and Harriet but the world alongside it: a small world within a world where the population looks either sinister or dead and the language is jazz or chemistry. Set me straight, man? Got any splim? Red? Strawberry? I got the Rams, man. Don't give me no Rooster Brand. Officials warn of fentanyl and phenylalkylamines. It is all arcane...
...criminals create the shadow planet, or does the shadow planet create them? Whatever. The planet thrives, where even Ozzie and Harriet's little boy, grown middle-aged and off camera, is said to have floated high on cocaine en route to dying. It is as if the American mind itself were divided between clarity and dreams, freedom and addiction...