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...Thanks, Joe." The voice is cool and quiet. If people vote for Tommy O'Neill, then they have to vote for Ed King. But while this bothers O'Neill, it isn't such a bitter pill to swallow for the hundreds of ironworkers, plasterers and plumbers who are milling around the Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon. In fact, they rather like the idea, and don't hesitate to tell you why. It's a class war--the working man against the intellectual elite. Hatch's record as a state rep has been weak and they claim he has voted against...
Stratton moves on to a corner of the third floor where the 13 female trainees are quartered. Twenty additional women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...
Teevens can toss the pill as well as anyone in the Ivies--he nearly played the miracle-maker in last year's 31-25 Harvard win--and he has Dave Shula (Don's son) and Jim Eden to throw...
...defeat was a bitter pill for the Crimson to swallow as it seemed to confirm the nagging doubts that had surrounded the Harvard eleven going into the game. With the exception of a couple of breathtaking plays that accounted for Harvard's two touchdowns, coach Joe Restic's high-falutin multi-flex offense flim-flammed for most of the game...
...tawdry roman à clef aspects aside, W.E.B. is not without its amusingly smarmy moments. This show's view of the industry is even more vicious than Network 's. According to Bolen, TV is run by sex-crazed, alcoholic, pill-popping men whose contempt for the public is exceeded only by their contempt for each other. "Television is a monster that never stops eating," explains one of them. True enough, but W.E.B. gives viewers that rare opportunity to watch television throw...