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...this eponymous town, circa 18.90, come two men hot in pursuit of the dream. Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms), an experienced roughneck going rapidly downhill, and Bobby Nobis (John Stehiln) a young software salesman-turned-cowboy, are after the big paychecks available in the oil boom of the late...
...American faith in authority also had a sometimes chaotically liberating effect, breaking old molds and freeing the imagination to create new forms, new movements (environmentalism, say, or feminism), new companies, high-tech ideas that might have been stifled by traditional lines of authority. No doubt the enormous baby-boom generation would have effected changes anyway. But the war brought with it gusts of wild energy. "Freedom," said the lyric, "is just another word for nothing left to lose." The war, and the protest against it, shook loose forces in American life and gave them a style and prestige they might...
...Civil War and the Depression did. It was the formative, defining event for the largest generation of Americans ever, and it divided that generation in ways that will be felt for years. The war deflected and thwarted what might otherwise have been the productive idealism of the enormous baby-boom generation...
...report every quarter. He had made his second cover appearance in 1980 as a symbol of the auto industry's plight. Two and a half years later, when Iacocca had turned Chrysler around, he was on the cover again. "Iacocca was by then referring to the pressroom as 'the boom-boom room,' " Witteman remembers...
...hardly in dire straits. Since the mid-1970s, when it vaulted from last to first in the prime-time ratings, ABC has proved to be a skilled and tenacious competitor. "I think their problems have been overstated," says Fred Silverman, who ran the network's programming department during its boom years of the 1970s. "My guess is that ABC's performance at this point is a temporary blip. You'll see them bounce back...