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Whatever that is. According to the Census Bureau, 27% of American families with kids are headed by a single parent. "Family comedy," though, still carries overtones of the Ike years, when sitcoms like Father Knows Best defined the genre and American pop culture was supposed to promote stability, peace and the effacement of discord at any cost...
...Clinton should cheer up. Nixon lost in a close one. But everybody still likes Ike...
...Whatever that is. According to the Census Bureau, 27 percent of American families with kids are headed by a single parent. "Family comedy," though, still carries overtones of the Ike years, when sitcoms like "Father Knows Best" defined the genre and American pop culture was supposed to promote stability, peace and the effacement of discord at any cost...
...Altamont and the infamous-almost unbearably brutal-stabbing caught on film, there's great concert footage from the tour: the Stones are at their raw and gritty peak and Mick Jagger gives a clinic in stage dominance. There's even prophetic footage of Tina Turner singing a duet with Ike Turner, their voices spasmodically oscillating between pure sexuality and brutal violence. We see great backstage footage and intimate shots of the Stones in the studio recording Sticky Fingers. We see the machinations of the music industry attempting to alchemize the flailing fury of '60s rock 'n roll into cold cash...
...moron ploy. I have been listening to it all my life. Dwight Eisenhower was a moron; Adlai Stevenson was so elegantly articulate, you know, and Eisenhower couldn't even complete a sentence grammatically. And Ronald Reagan, of course, was a complete imbecile. I don't compare W. to Ike or Reagan, who, unlike W., could laugh all the way to the electoral college. But that Manhattan dinner-party smugness - moron jokes as the coup de grace - gives me hives...