Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show-biz tour de force. An exceedingly clever and affecting soap opera, Roots II manages to play on the most basic sentimental feelings about democratic ideals and familial love. When, in the final hours, the tale turns to Alex Haley's career, it also becomes an irresistible American success story. Taken as a whole, Roots 11 is a compendium of pop cul ture: it mixes elements of Gone With the Wind, Uncle Tom 's Cabin, March of Time newsreels, Horatio Alger sto ries and even Fiddler on the Roof...
...success of Roots 1, the show's creators have resisted the urge to become pompous and preachy in Roots...
...stations on a commuter run in Connecticut. Then, listening to him self, he stops and smiles apologetically. "And to think that when I was growing up in Henning, Tennessee, it used to be a big deal to get a lift on a feed truck to Memphis!" The phenomenal success of Roots has not so much changed Haley's life as it has obliterated it, giving him a new and often uncomfortable persona as if he were seeing himself in a strange, distorting mirror. "It's like a kaleidoscope, a whirlpool into which I've fallen," he says...
...this excuse for a movie is a commercial success, it is only because the advance hype, George C. Scott in Hardcore," tittilated the public. The topic may be timely, but its treatment is stale...
Crimson red was not the color of success at Hemenway Gym yesterday, even though it was Valentine's Day, as the Harvard women's squash team fell to Yale...