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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike: How the hell do we get from one hour of your solid laughter at Flip Wilson to another of your broadside attacks against all blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Archie Bunker Looks at Flip | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...branches of the Government, Richard Nixon made a lighthearted political sally early in his State of the Union speech. "There are more candidates for the presidency in this chamber today than there probably have been at any one time in the whole history of the Republic," he said, to laughter. Actually, not all the candidates from Congress were present, but the President could scarcely avoid the eyes of two of his likely challengers in November. There, seated side by side and within a few yards of him, were Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie-and the arrangement was not by accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of a Nonpolitical Speech | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...Thomas. Sportswriters had unsuccessfully been trying to interview Thomas for weeks. Making the least of the moment, the visibly flustered Brookshier posed a long convoluted question that seemed to translate: Are you as fast as you seem to be? "Evidently," said the unsmiling Thomas while his teammates roared with laughter. 'I'm nervous," admitted Brookshier. He tried another less than incisive question: "You must like the game of football. Do you?" Said Thomas: "Yeah, I do. That's why I'm a football player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Slaughter | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Besides the song, the album (Atlantic Records) contains excerpts from a dozen shows, a litany of the Bunkerisms that have won All in the Family the respect of rednecks and the laughter of liberals. To Archie (Carroll O'Connor), the proudly bigoted head of the Bunker household, England is a "fag country," his wife Edith a "dingbat," the Renaissance master Michelangelo "that Dago artist," and Women's Lib a "dreaded disease." As for the theory of evolution, Archie tells his son-in-law Mike (Rob Reiner): "We didn't crawl out from under no rocks; we didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Scorn Along with Archie | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

From the Heart. Indeed, when "Momo" made his debut at the age of twelve in a Paris cafe, he was dressed as a peasant. He had the spectators roaring with laughter as he sang three tones above his pianist. From the start to the finish of his singing career, which lasted 71 years, Chevalier never did have much of a voice. "I have always sung," he said himself, "more from the heart than the throat." He learned to come on twinkling and debonair, his r-rolling repertory in droll counterpart to his charming manner and accomplished delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Reserved for the Stage | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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