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...quite unlike Cloud Nine, Churchill's wickedly ambisextrous foray into the man-woman relationship in the heyday of Victoria's imperial sway, updated in Act II to contemporary Britain. Nor does it remotely resemble Top Girls, her study of the modern career woman's adaptive skills at the Big Business pastime of cat-kills-mouse. The women of Fen seem primordially immune to change, though Churchill would doubtless argue that they have been ensnared in a capitalistic slave...
Regional archaeologists are not likely to see the heyday that was the mid 1970s again. Those who, hopefully will remain committed to research in eastern New England most likely will do so as private individuals or in the guise of not for profit corporations, lacking the resources and supposed stature of the academy. Other institutions, and perhaps even private sector "scavengers, will attempt to fill the void but in the meantime sites will be ignored or destroyed. The field of contract archaeology, having lost two of its anchors in the region is suffering boom and bust phases just like cycles...
...assassination attempts, and Congress passed a law requiring the Executive Branch to certify that any anticipated intelligence activity was considered "important to the national security." By the time Reagan took office, the CIA had fewer than 200 clandestine operatives, compared to the more than 2,000 in the heyday of the 1960s...
Good looks have always been at a premium in Hollywood, but in the '70s men who looked odd, unusual or perhaps just real-a bald Telly Savalas or an impish Robin Williams-also achieved TV stardom. "It was the heyday of the average guy," says Joel Thurm, head of talent for NBC. "The country was prosperous. People were relatively satisfied with their lives and were able to laugh at themselves a little more. Now we're looking for heroes again. We want fantasy and glamour...
...peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday: "He is the average guy's wistful projection of what he would like...