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...latest of the Roper Reports on the mood of the country confirms the obvious: Americans are currently feeling both put-upon and apprehensive. A majority (56%) are burdened by inflation and high prices to such an extent that they believe that even a $100 addition to their monthly paychecks would be spent to meet current needs. Forty-six percent are soured by the fuel and en ergy crisis. Forty percent are resentful of wrongdoing by elected officials...
...cast is splendid to a man, but perhaps special praise should be meted out to Joseph Maher as a backbiting, working-class cynic, to John Wardwell as a much put-upon boss who reads his balance sheet of life in red ink, to Reid Shelton as the stoic foreman once jailed for embezzlement, and to Kevin O'Connor as a sweetly compassionate, but unsentimentalized, stuttering imbecile...
...worst disasters of the television season be redeemed? January is when the programmers try, by inserting midseason replacements for the shakiest shows. By last week, all eight of the substitute entries were on the air. Among them: a dentist whose family adopts a chimpanzee (Me and the Chimp), a put-upon executive (The Don Rickles Show), a parapsychologist's bouts with the supernatural (The Sixth Sense), and movies, movies, movies. If any trend was apparent, it was simple desperation. But a blessed few shows revealed something more...
...Lambs, perhaps her best book, they are used to create a series of comic tableaux. Asked what they are doing, one replies: "We are waiting for time to pass." Another spends his time rereading his favorite story, the book of Job. In The Last and the First, when the put-upon young Heriots and Grimstones meet for tea, a minor Heriot says, "We have been looking forward to the day." A Grimstone replies: "We would have done so, but the faculty has faded through lack...
...harassed housewife nagged to distraction by her socially-climbing husband (Richard Benjamin), makes a token rebellion in her affair with a semi-famous writer who turns out to be equally odious. They are horrible not only because they are men but because they are horrible. Snodgrass is sensitive and put-upon because she is telling the story, but even in objective terms she is clearly the good...