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...commissary waitress, Susie (Mary beth Hurt), who has granted her favors to some married bounder and is, as she puts it, "a little bit pregnant," provides the writing duo with an inspiration. They will pair her soon-to-be-born child with the roughrider of the purple sage and tug at the nation's heartstrings...
Free agency, in one form or another, is an idea whose time is now. Phillie Pitcher Tug McGraw thinks the hassling among owners and players is a healthy sign. "It's to the benefit of everybody that all this surfaces," he says. "We are no longer going to be fooled into thinking that it is just a little boy's game we are playing out there." During his eight years as a Met, says McGraw, "the line had always been that we were a part of this big happy family. We were always the 'sons...
...after the Six-Day War have no question about their identity; they are Palestinians. But for the Arabs living within Israel's pre-1967 borders as Israeli citizens?a community that has grown from 150,000 in 1948 to nearly half a million today?there has been a continual tug of loyalties that exploded last week in the Galilee riots...
...some of the observers packing the pews every Monday night, the tug of war that the independents and liberals have played weekly since reform Cambridge civic government began, seemed foolish. After all, as at least one observer marvelled while walking out of the chambers this week, if the mayor's position is such a ceremonial one, why all the fuss? Why can't one of the independents coax the other four into unanimity? And if the mayoralty of Cambridge really is in name only, why can't the liberals put four and one together and make five...
...there the resemblance ends. Upstairs, Downstairs reflects a society in which masters and servants are bound to each other by shared and common memories. There is an intimacy, both abrasive and comforting, that precludes abandonment, despair and uncontrollable passions. Soap operas, on the other hand, are folk tales that tug at the soul of a nation of strangers for whom television itself is a bond. Tolstoy thought that unhappy families were unhappy in different ways. But a Madison Avenue philosopher, selling sex and suffering in the afternoon, remarks: "Show me an unhappy home and I'll show you a home...