Word: jimming
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...created by Ed James for the radio show). Did the writers and directors, and the cast, believe in the small world they reinvented each week? I think they believed in it as a TV reality. What?s more, they sold that reality to the audience with the entrepreneurial conviction Jim must have used on his clients. It was a slick construct, and it was good...
...typical plot had one of the kids getting into a social gaffe or an ethical scrape before Jim stepped in to adjudicate. OK, but where did that leave Margaret...
...kitchen apron, her pretty face set in a near-permanent smile. As each episode?s plot played out, she would be baking cookies or measuring the living-room couch for new slip covers, assuring that the mother ship was shipshape. In a show that ventured infrequently into Jim?s office or the kids? school, where the home was the essential set, Margaret - the only Anderson without a nickname - was also the only one whose daily business didn?t take her away from the house. She was the rock, the one the others came home to. She was the home...
...also was allowed yearnings of escape. She wants a weekend away from the kids - perhaps because, in the lodge, they won?t have to sleep in those separate beds. She takes a college English class (where Betty happens to be a fellow student), and dancing lessons (dragging Jim, the perennial square, against his will). In a 1958 episode that won the show an Emmy, Jim announces he?s building a trophy case for the scholastic and athletic prizes the kids have amassed, and Margaret realizes she has no medals. Darned if she doesn...
...introduction to the cover package on "Europe's New Frontiers" [Oct. 9], Time Atlantic senior editor Jim Ledbetter asked, "How far should European governments go to make their Muslim citizens feel at home?" Muslims who live in Europe have made themselves at home, but they do not embrace European values - nor do they try to. Zygmunt Brzezinski Vienna...