Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addiction of Willie B., the Atlanta gorilla [Jan. 22], should not surprise us. It merely lends credence to the widely held belief that television producers have lowered the intellectual content of their programming to the subhuman level...
That is now a concern at least as grave as inflation. Even with the protesting farmers making trouble in Washington these past few days, and the biggest snowstorm in five years diverting the capital's attention, the debate about U.S. strength and resolve is emerging on almost every level...
...Last night in Baltimore, however, it was Harvard's surgically efficient swimming machine which did the operating as the Crimson anesthetized the Bluejays, 64-47. The only thing the Johns Hopkins students learned was that being a division III swimming power (Hopkins has captured the national title at that level for the last two years in a row) is not the same as being a division I power--as Crimson coach Joe Bernal's stable of seahorses is rapidly becoming...
Harold Burton, assistant vice president of the Bank of America, said more lower-level executive positions will be opening up for blacks in the next five years...
...Travis Bickle. In Hardcore, Schrader relies on the obvious: Grand Rapids family life and California street life confront one another on the screen. His device is too simple, and the extreme images have no force. The director's lack of involvement with the film lowers it to the level of a porn film. Schrader uses a classic box-office formula--a little sex and scandal combined with middle-class moral outrage--to make a cheap show with a tantalizing title that offends no one because it goes nowhere. For his next trick, Schrader has signed John Travolta to play...