Word: obsessionals
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Dallas, which premiered in April 1978, established the pattern: a big, powerful family whose obsession with sex and money makes them miserable and the TV audience insatiable; guilt-edged lust that skulks through the generations, seeking spectacular revenge; feuds and affairs that seep over the interwoven plots like warm Brie...
The hostage crisis was America's obsession. Jimmy Carter called it his particular obsession more than once, and the country wholeheartedly adopted it. Television and newspapers helped mightily, Walter Cronkite's nightly countdown becoming a show of its own. The country could not let go. For most of...
"He is like a composer who does not know how to end his symphony," observed a political commentator in Jerusalem. Those were perhaps the kindest words to be heard last week about Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who seemed increasingly like a leader who neither was, nor sought to be, in...
With oil costs soaring, the hunt for alternatives to OPEC petroleum has become a global obsession. To bolster conventional sources of crude, oilmen are drilling more and deeper than ever before. Often they are going to depths of 15,000 ft. or more, and frequently in storm-tossed seas that...
The actors, one imagines, needed very little help at all, beyond the occasional suggestion to play broadly. As usual, Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, is bent on destroying the earth and, failing that, making life as unpleasant as possible for Flash (Sam J. Jones), his girlfriend Dale Arden (Melody...