Word: pomerantz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upbeat, sometimes preachy tone of the series has annoyed some. "Bill seemed to want the family to be good, and to me, good isn't funny," says Earl Pomerantz, head writer for the show's first eight episodes. Others complain that the series slipped a bit last season, with some segments being especially flimsy and plotless. A few critics have raised more substantive issues. One charge is that the well-to-do Huxtables are hardly representative of the vast majority of black families in this country. (Or many white ones, for that matter; no problem with child care in this...
...Paul Pomerantz...
DIED. Abraham Pomerantz, 79, lawyer who pioneered suits by small shareholders against officials of such big organizations as McDonnell Douglas Corp. and the Dreyfus Fund; in New York City. Pomerantz specialized in so-called derivative suits, in which the company receives the award and passes it on to all stockholders. He was known for charging high fees and for sometimes representing the same companies whose stockholders he championed. "I love the buck," he once said. "I'm out to make it. But when it's a question of the rich against the poor...