Word: reruns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angelenos, the Bradley-Yorty runoff seems like a late show rerun. In the primary four years ago, Bradley, who is black, topped Yorty by an even greater margin (39% to 26%), but Mayor Sam won the runoff-after a campaign in which he injected the racial issue. This time Yorty vows that race will not be an issue but adds quickly: "Of course, Bradley will get the black-bloc vote." It will take much more than that to win; blacks make up only 18% of the electorate...
...educated Americans have come to expect from Hollywood, the dispute settled down to a waiting game between the Federal government and the militant members of the American Indian Movement. As the occupation dragged to a close last week, the atmosphere at Wounded Knee had no more excitement than a rerun of "Leave it to Beaver...
Video can be equally useful in pointing up the significance of silence. After a wife complained that her husband showed no reaction when she spoke to him, Berger replayed a tape made at a previous joint therapy session. In the rerun, the wife talked while her husband held his pipe in clenched fingers and tamped down the tobacco with a jabbing motion that in retrospect revealed a "squelched inner fury...
...frustration--and dresses it up in typically fifties sentiment. The movie is a plea for the Blanche du Bois and Amandas of the world, victims of rat-racing commercial America. The American Theater has wallowed under a deluge of such stuff for 20 years; the dialogue sounds like a rerun William Inge or Tennessee Williams, and the movie watches like a Blue Monday...
...taste was changing, and the show's simple formula did not allow for exploration of the more complicated themes that interest viewers today. In the latest Nielsens, the series had fallen to No. 53. There is still some solace for Bonanza buffs, however. Chances are that it will rerun through syndication for at least another 13 years...