Word: moms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much button-popping pride left in you when you hear "America, the Beautiful" again at the end. Most of the little parodies (like the Air Force officers who are worried about "the pinko prevert influence") come off well. Some individual scenes are truly memorable; director Tony Richardson has made Mom Joyboy's eating scene overshadow Tom Jones...
...objectivity. "If I don't tip the scales a little bit," he says, "it will sound like I'm making fun of them". Sometimes, in Wolfe's description, these drop out forms seem as natural and organic a part of the contemporary scene as any aspect of that Mom's pie America which he dismisses like a crumb from his roll-away sleeve. At other moments, however, they resemble isolated islands of vitality just spoiling for a good fight to the finish with the moribund Mainland: lateral against vertical, Harley 74 against Country Squire station wagon, hipster against mark, today...
...relentless stream of splenetic essays and novels, Philip Wylie has profitably lambasted Mom, Pop, the common man, the businessman, the scientific man, sexy advertising, and American apathy in the face of potential nuclear disaster. Now he reports his latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist...
...next few minutes he was everywhere. First, downstage to introduce and buss "Mom," who sat snowy-haired and demure, the envy of every mother in the club. He table-hopped along the ringside, began comparing diamond rings with the women. "My stones aren't as big," he conceded, "but then I didn't have to do anything to get mine." More gales of laughter and murmurs of "Isn't he cute?" But no one laughed when he sat down to the candelabra-lit piano with its plexiglass top and played "all the Gershwin I know...
Even Ed The Talking Horse inspired emulation. CBS's My Mother the Car tried combining the U.S. fascination with cars, sex and Mom. But something happened in casting: the car is a 1928 convertible; Mother (who returns to earth from celestial regions, using the car radio as a voice box) is an invisible Ann Sothern; and as for Hero Jerry Van Dyke, he has finally answered the question, what is it that Jerry hasn't got that Brother Dick has? The Smothers Brothers also tried to cope with the Great Beyond. Tom Smothers is drowned at sea, returns...