Word: mork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just try being Popeye for a while, as Robin Williams did while making a Robert Altman film about the old gob, set for release in December. Not only did the actor have to master a vocabulary of malapropisms far more complex than the nano-nanos of Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak in what he describes as a Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley...
...Will Mork return to Ork? Will Hawkeye Pierce ever be sued for malpractice? Who did shoot J.R.? With the actors unions' strike against the three major television networks grinding into its eighth week, viewers may have to wait another month for the answers...
...ratings, until they built a loyal audience. ABC, by contrast, tried to spread its strength around and pick up new viewers by splintering the solid blocks of sitcoms that had allowed it to dominate Tuesday and Thursday nights and seeking comedy beachheads on nights when other networks were strong. Mork & Mindy, last year's Thursday-night hit, was shifted to Sunday, where, because of late-running football games, it often faced CBS's invincible 60 Minutes. ABC's Fantasy Island and Laverne and Shirley were similarly moved from positions of strength. The result: all three shows dropped...
...process that has been evolving over the past ten years is just as wearisome for a jaded public. Thanks to increasing television exposure, the candidates become as familiar and predictable, if not as entertaining, as Mork and Archie. And how many canned speeches, straws in the wind, shifts in the polls, who's-up-who's-down, can an audience take before it tunes out? Many people are getting too bored to bother to vote at all. The primary turnout dropped from 39% of those of voting age in 1968 to 28% eight years later, and there...
...Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...