Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Norm Show (Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.T., ABC), Macdonald, in the least likely scenario since Manimal, plays an ex-hockey player who is avoiding jail by paying off a community-service sentence as a social worker. While Macdonald is often amusing, the sitcom never rises above mediocrity. The problem, besides the premise, is that Macdonald's sharp sarcasm may be a bit much over half an hour...
Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) plays Norm's former social worker who now has to work side by side with this incorrigible slacker. She does well enough, but is stuck with little more to do than yell, "Oh, Norm!" at the appropriate times. The two, no doubt, will learn a valuable lesson from each other every week...
Meet three blind mice: an unhappily married thirtysomething couple--he's a nearly successful actor, she's an actress ignominiously turned brownie baker--and their gay best friend, a former dancer who's now an ineffectual social worker. Smart and smart-alecky, none of them know how to shift the course of their sorry lives. A young stranger shows up at the Los Angeles bungalow they're temporarily sharing. Secrets are revealed, life choices are examined, change is attempted. With passion and humor, Grant's sinewy off-Broadway drama digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems...
During the 1960s and early '70s, three biologists--William Hamilton, George Williams and Robert Trivers--ushered in a new view of evolution that would complicate this story line. Among its messages: for a highly social species, it isn't just a jungle out there; it's a jungle in here. Society is deeply, if often inconspicuously, competitive. Evolution favored traits that helped our ancestors get more genes passed on than their neighbors got. People's brains are designed less to deal with lions than to deal with other people's brains...
Oddly, Darwinian success in a dog-eat-dog social world turns out to involve lots of mushy feelings. Swoons of romance, love of kin, devotion to friends and pity for the needy could be useful tools in the social jungle. Even conscience and the sense of justice are now said to have roots in our genes...