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...average since the beginning of 2005) merited front-page treatment by the New York Times. Even the unveiling in April of their official portraits at the Smithsonian--hers, a luminous profile, evoking the Italian Renaissance; his, a sporty pose you might have expected to see over the fireplace at Southfork--had the sharp-eyed tabloids noting that no wedding ring was visible...
...public chose well. For here, in 356 episodes of primal prime time, were the central conflicts of American life. Country (the Ewing home at Southfork Ranch) fought with city (the Ewing Oil building in downtown Dallas). Cowboys corralled oil slickers. Sons (J.R. and Bobby) double-crossed each other for their father's love. Daughters-in-law ached for the approval of a family that would always eye them suspiciously. Add myriad business rivals, mistresses, children and newly discovered relatives, and the conflict could keep roiling in a never-ending story, with cunning variations on the time-honored themes...
...Dolls makes and breaks the careers of models half her age with the flick of a fingernail and looks smashing while doing it. The women of Dallas have taken a page from your book and hired their own designer to come up with dazzling new outfits to wear around Southfork. Even TV detectives, for heaven's sake, are starting to look like fashion spreads in Vogue. Jennifer O'Neill trots off to swank locations around the world posing as a fashion photographer in Cover Up. Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson play a former debutante and a working-class...
Until the television program Dallas debuted in 1978, Dealey Plaza, the assassination site, was the most popular tourist attraction in town. Now the most popular place to see is Southfork, the ranch where Dallas is set. Fred Meyer, chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party, finds an offensive image here. "When the No. 1 tourist attraction is a fictional location of a fictional TV show," Meyer says, "that's a powerful argument that there is a lack of knowledge about Dallas" Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. wants to send forth a truer picture too. "There are places...
...would pursue "The Other Dallas" (CBS), "The Hidden Dallas" (NBC) and "The Dallas the Republicans Don't Want You to See" (ABC). Poverty in the black sections of South Dallas would be revealed. Cases of provincialism would be found among the rich. One bit would be shot at Southfork to display "who has been helped by Reaganomics." In short, every boil the city imagines it possesses would be lanced in prime time...