Word: misters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glorification of the Negro now an accepted policy of your magazine? I had hoped that after the protest of one Southerner you might show some consideration for the sensibilities of our people by the discontinuance of your practice of referring to the colored man as "mister." I was deeply grieved, therefore, to find two new instances in your Sept. 7 issue...
...City Blues (NBC's major-league series about a minor-league baseball team, from the producers of Hill Street Blues), the new shows find their role models not in TV trailblazers but in the Lowest Common Dreck. I Dream of Jeannie inspired Just Our Luck (ABC); Mister Ed begat Mr. Smith (NBC); Bewitched gave birth to Jennifer Slept Here (NBC). Webster (ABC) is Diff'rent Strokes with a foster mother. The Rousters (NBC) is more dudes of Hazzard. Lottery$ (ABC) is The Millionaire after inflation. Two shows, Cutter to Houston (CBS) and Trauma Center (ABC), could be called...
...Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. It is colored with the lyric causticity of the Brecht-Weill collaborations. Yet it is always a mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore...
...mister," asks the fat lady on the in dusty Texas sidewalk, "were you really Mac Sledge?" Mac (Robert Duvall) squints and says, "Yes, I guess I was." A successful country songwriter is what he was, and the husband of a high-octane singer named Dixie (Betty Buckley), till a nasty temper and too much liquor drove him out of Dixie's limelight. Now he is trying to find a modest parcel of dignity for himself, his new wife Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) and her boy Sonny (Allan Hubbard). But it's hard: "I'm missin...
Ever see one of these before, mister? Yes, you. I'm talking to you, ma'am. Ever work one of these Commodores or Timex Sinclairs or Osborne Is or TRS-80 IIIs? How do you like them Apples? Just a joke, son. Good, clean fun. But you look so skeptical, like you're from Missouri, and I want to sell you one of these beauties, 'cause you need it and 'cause you want it, no matter what you say. Deep in your all-American heart (you are American, aren't you, pal?), you crave this little honey, which will count...