Word: welk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meetings, lecture tours and the occasional sit-down with disabled kids, did he take the time to write a new book? "I had to pay for my nurses," Hawking says (or, rather, since he can't speak, his computer-driven voice synthesizer intones, in a voice something like Lawrence Welk...
When public TV was launched, there were only the three networks. You could watch Gomer Pyle or Land of the Giants or Lawrence Welk. Public TV was singular, glorious, redemptive. Today, of course, there is a democratic hurly- burly glut of cable and home video. Imagine if Americans had been presented in 1968 with a referendum: either a single channel broadcasting a mix of news, documentaries, children's shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with...
...other channels are putting on what was once available only on public TV, public TV is increasingly putting on pop crud. Why is it so civilizing to underwrite broadcasts of Wall Street Week, Cary Grant movies, John Bradshaw new age lectures, the powerfully annoying Barney -- or Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire...
...Tipper, perhaps, Larry Welk's last playlist...
...know about this. Sure, "10,000 Men" excludes women. Yes, the "let's stomp Eli" sentiment is militaristic. And in terms of style it's more analagous to "The Lawrence Welk Show" than "Hangin' With...