Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 and Ethel on I Love Lucy...
...contains two sets of hand luggage-his and hers-and a sofa shrouded in a white slipcover, symbolic, perhaps, of a once warm marital bed. But Emily (Barbara Baxley) and Ralph Michaelson (George Grizzard) soon fill the room with the emotional furnishings of their life together. So much of love is shared experience that a permanent parting seems unreal...
...husband's ordeal by alcoholism and his conquest of it, of Emily's witnessing her small son being crushed by a truck. The true protagonists are pain, humor, fury, the terrors of aloneness, a remembrance of good sex past, and an abiding perception of love amid its ruins...
...male and pro-homosexual." Author Shere Hite is indeed open to that charge. Her book depicts men as selfishly concerned with their own sexual pleasure, attacks sexual intercourse for "institutionalizing out" women's needs, urges men to give up orgasms altogether, and suggests that women who reject lesbian love are selling out to the male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both to rebut Kite's book on women and preempt her sequel on men, due next spring. Like Hite, Pietropinto finds what he was looking for. Beyond the Male Myth...
...More than one-third of all men believed that love is the most important thing in life, and another 30% said love made sex better or was essential for good...