Word: moms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen scenes of Harvard pretending to be Cambridge, scenes that any starry-eyed tourist on a one-day visit might see for himself. O-K Dad, put the Polaroid through its paces, first a picture of Jimmy over there by the statue, and then, quick, one of Mom in front of that enormous library before one of those Japs with his goddamn Nikon gets in the way. Miss Westman may live in Cambridge, but she looks at it through the eyes of a tourist...
...rarely the first choice. "The rural, rustic life is not attractive to young people," says David Pynchon, headmaster of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. "Today's youth is not accepting the kind of authority that the school represents." Adds Pomfret Headmaster Joseph K. Milnor Jr.: "They opt for Mom, Pop, a girl and television." Indeed, places in city and suburban private day schools are much in demand. The power of sex appeal is perhaps best demonstrated by Rosemary Hall, which is one of the few girls' boarding schools that has not felt the decline in applications this year...
...Perhaps if every kid eligible to die in Southeast Asia put the heat on good ol' Mom and Dad, the middle-aged block of ice could be thawed a little. Even though Abraham was determined to carry out God's command and knife his own son to death, I don't think most parents would share the same degree of devotion. The concept of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public telling their son to go risk his life in a war situation (a situation few parents could adequately explain) because Nixon says so seems absurd...
Broadcasting's big brother, the Federal Communications Commission, may have succeeded where Mom and Dad have failed for years. With its latest ruling, the FCC may just be able to send the country to bed earlier. The ruling (which does not go into effect until September 1971) limits network programming to three hours during the prime-time hours of 7-11 p.m. Eastern time...
There are occasional flickers of satiric hilarity, but too many of the jokes seem feeble and rather desperate. The best episode in Hi, Mom! is a re-creation of a guerrilla-theater confrontation between a troupe of angry black actors and a group of gullible suburban honkies who just have to see what being black is like. The episode is tense, electric, terrifying, and suggests that next time around, Moviemakers De Palma and Hirsch might forsake satire for drama. "Promising" is still the word for them...