Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ordinarily, the Academy Awards are a nice, long evening's wallow in the junk culture; you send out for Chinese food or pizza, make popcorn, keep score, watch for the awful fashions and the stilted soliloquies of acceptance. But this year, beneath the usual wisecracks and show business sentimentality, there was more interesting drama. Jane Fonda, anathematized for years because of her radical politics and trip to Hanoi during the war, won the Best Actress award for her role in Coming Home, an antiwar film focused sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave...
...errant U.S. artillery round in Viet Nam. As their anger grows more obsessive, they gradually alienate their lifelong friends and even their own family. In Bryan's book, the process is deeply moving, but the TV version is cluttered with cliches and civics lessons. The best TV show about the American involvement in Asia remains CBS's Korean War sitcom M*A*S*H -and M*A*S*H, though controversial by old TV standards, is antiwar in a context shorn of politics and anesthetized by the bedside black humor and reassuring personalities of its principals...
...many ways, the statistics are misleading. Says California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston: "The gross indicators show they're doing well, but when you look closer at the educationally disadvantaged, the young, minorities and the disabled, you see some serious problems." These problems are masked because the figures lump together all 8.8 million veterans of the Viet Nam era, and fewer than one-third of them actually went to Viet Nam. Those who did tended to be the blacks, the poor and the less educated. One million of them have not been able to find jobs that keep...
...conservatism, her inexperience in foreign affairs and her hard line on the unions. So far, he does not mention her by name, and he has warned his aides against any personal attacks for fear of a backlash. Women make up more than half of the electorate, and polls show that more women vote Conservative than vote Labor. Somewhat surprisingly, working-class women tend to favor Thatcher more than middle-class women do, and the Tory leader can discuss supermarket prices with a housewife's familiarity. Nevertheless, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week could not resist a quip...
...hope students will show a commitment to either or both issues on Monday, not merely by boycotting their classes, but by actively joining the picket line...