Word: bionic
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Million Dollar Man has been so fruitful during its first three years on ABC that it is replacing All In The Family as the busiest spin-off nursery. The Bionic Woman came first, after lovely Lindsay Wagner made some guest appearances on the parent show. Wagner bounded into the ABC schedule with her own program to share the Top Ten ratings...
...suspense, dabbed subtly here, dropped subtly there for contemplation. Thus Kelvin must not only reconcile himself to the idea of dreams incarnate, but to a materialized, breathing, caressing version of his former wife, who had committed suicide on Earth. He becomes sucked in by his desire to love this bionic apparition, neutrinos or no. Stanley Kubrick may have meant to convey this same space-subconscious analogy in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he abstracted too much, and became boring. Tarkovsky doesn't; he clutches us in the gut with emotional ambiguities, and he is not using scare tactics. Hari...
...times-which may roughly be reckoned from the birth of Homer to the death of Errol Flynn-all boys (and the occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow...
This year that gap could be closed. Viewers have a tendency to stay tuned for the news and public affairs offerings of whatever network they are already watching, and ABC's prime-time preconvention lineup this week is more flashily apolitical than ever: Bionic Woman, Let's Make a Deal, Wild, Wild World of Animals-as well as the All-Star Game...
...football field). "There might be a few ripped trousers and coats. There might be a few bumps and bruises," says NBC'S Pettit. Of course, some kind of action like that may be necessary to keep the nomination of a presidential candidate from being upstaged by Bionic Woman...