Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance at the new television season suggests that the mewing pussycat trademark of Mary Tyler Moore's M.T.M. Enterprises Inc. could turn out to be the tiger of TV situation comedy. M.T.M. is responsible for three of the five new sitcoms on the tube: Rhoda, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers and The Texas Wheelers. All three seem to have the potential to join Moore's own show (and The Odd Couple, when it is at its erratic best) as the tube's few regular offerings showing something like recognizable human behavior...
...PAUL SAND in FRIENDS and LOVERS (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) exemplifies another virtue of the Moore style, which is to get people out of bland Brady Bunch suburban housing and show them working at jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled...
...Sand comes equipped with a financially harassed brother-in-law (Michael Pataki) who lives in the failed subdivision he designed ("the only FHA-approved ghost town"). Pataki's wife (Penny Marshall) provides another standard element in the Moore formula, a voice for the reality principle, keeping everyone's fantasies within bounds. Trying to borrow money to keep a perpetual-student sister in school, Pataki inquires whether Marshall would like to see the girl "out in the streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater...
Similarly, the attempt to make Paul's western apocalypse seem beautiful fails; it is as dull as the desert sand. Yet Winner depends exclusively on glib celluloid statements to establish points. The Kerseys are in love--because a golden sundown silhouettes them when they embrace...
...former Vice President Alben Barkley. The Veep, "Speaking at the commencement exercises of the University of Kentucky, declared, 'I would rather sit at the feet of the Lord than dwell in the house of the mighty.' He thereupon keeled over and died." At one low-tide sand bar this "Best" was challenged by a player who offered Henry David Thoreau's reply when his aunt asked if he had made his peace with God: "I was not aware that we had quarreled." Play-offs will be scheduled shortly...