Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual viewer, the appeal of ABC's Tuesday night hits may seem elusive at first. In many ways the shows look like well produced rehashes of the hoariest old TV formats. Unlike the Norman Lear sitcoms on CBS, ABC's shows do not pretend to deal with topical issues, and their premises are brazenly retrograde. Happy Days copies Dobie Gillis; Three's Company recalls Petticoat Junction and Love That Bob. Laverne and Shirley's slapstick antics- usually built around wild schemes to earn money or meet men-are often indistinguishable from the adventures of Lucy...
...Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me..." King Lear...
...real goldmine in the tabloid may be The Citizen's Companion, a listing of meetings and demonstrations to make if you're a political activist with a Lear jet. One example is a birthday party for The Citizens for Political Action featuring Eugene McCarthy, I.F. Stone, Reps. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) and Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.), held here in Boston just last week. (You missed it.) Or there is an address to write if you're interested in helping the Institute for Policy Studies get a special prosecutor appointed to look into the murder of Orlando Letelier, the late Chilean...
...Jonson's Fox may be the most avaricious character in literature, but to say that Volpone is about greed is like saying that King Lear is a study of the generation gap. What Jonson was writing about was not the pursuit of money, but power and the manipulation of human failings. Volpone is not only the most avaricious man who ever walked across a stage; he is also the most cynical. He has an infallible divining rod for everyone's weakness-and most especially...
...Soap had other comic concerns besides sex, its nastiness wouldn't be so pervasive. Unfortunately, Harris has none of Norman Lear's redeeming flair for witty social satire-unless one counts the tired reverse-racist jokes she lavishes on the character of a sassy black butler (Robert Guillaume). The flatness of the conventional comic scenes can be painful; when two characters engage in a lengthy and unfunny food fight, a third appears to suggest lamely that "this is like having breakfast with the Marx brothers." Good jokes never announce themselves...