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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HOPE'S JOLLY CHRISTMAS SHOW (NBC, Dec. 17, 8 p.m. EST). The usual sleighful of one-liners...
Liquid diets, which enjoyed a burst of popularity in the 1970s, are once again a fad. Programs are being offered in thousands of clinics, hospitals and doctors' offices across the country. Advertisements and articles tout the diets' merits. Celebrity success stories like that of TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who shed 67 lbs., heighten the interest. In all, the liquid regimens have grown into a $100 million-a-year industry. But the re-emergence of the diets has raised questions about their safety and long-term effectiveness...
Down at the end of lonely street, rush hour begins early and preparations are under way to handle the traffic. Gardeners spruce up the lavish Christmas decorations, guards sip coffee, and guides tug at their jackets as the first visitors ascend the curving drive. Ready, Teddy -- it's show time at Graceland, and Elvis Presley, who knew how to stage a stunner, would have loved every lucrative, down-home, star-spangled minute...
Sexism is clearly a problem, but things may not be so bad as Family Feud makes them seem. The response that most men I know had when I told them what happened on the show was to ask "Who the hell did they survey?" Far more men at Harvard would give a reasonable response, simply because many of us have been made aware of unconscious sexism by our peers...
Still, it is far too easy to imagine someone watching the show who doesn't realize that it is all right for men and women to share domestic responsibilities and have equal job status. If that person learns that a huge majority of men think women should be relegated to a lower caste, the result is a subtle, but effective way of reinforcing inequality. But knowledge of how people think is the key to changing their views, even if it is just knowledge we get from game shows...