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Still, there is no racial slur in the first two episodes of Soap that Archie Bunker has not uttered before. Though the sex jokes may be new to prime time, they are familiar to anyone who has watched Mary Hartman or followed what seems to be the terminal lust of the Globatron girls in All That Glitters. Seven years ago ABC rejected All in the Family, a fact that officials of network affiliates still discuss with steel in their voices. For Norman Lear, who produced all three shows, Soap is the sincerest form of flattery, a sweaty attempt to play...
...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...
...bussed kids lining up in one line and the white kids arriving on foot in another, and I'll tell you if there had been one rock thrown or one racial slur escaped, we would have seen a fight they'd never stop talking about. But they stood silent, and it was calm, and the kids did it," Winegar says...
...liberals are to keep the programs so necessary to quickly increase the number of black doctors for black communities, they must be willing to debate their conservative colleagues on the question of standards of excellence, instead of simply trying to isolate or slur their opponents...
...liberals are to keep the programs so necessary to quickly increase the number of black doctors for black communities, they must be willing to debate their conservative colleagues on the question of standards of excellence, instead of simply trying to isolate or slur their opponents...