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...Connor's performance remade that most stable of archetypes, the TV Dad. He prefigured Homer Simpson and Al Bundy; he took Ralph Kramden out of the realm of buffoonery and carried him to his logical extreme; he took the omniscient, benevolent TV dad of the '50s and exploded that figure as irrevocably as a gunpowder-stuffed tobacco pipe. Sure, this was a slap in the face of conservatives, who chafed at the show's Norman Lear liberalism. But the O'Connor's genius was that he played the part well enough to discomfit ideologues on the left too. Archie Bunker...
...long-winded patient; the taping of a TV game show called "What's My Disease?"; and what is without a doubt the ultimate '50s seduction-in-a-drive-in scene. Southern's dialogue is priceless, as the girl implores her fevered date, "...please don't, really don't please Ralph I can't darling I love you please, oh Ralph, please, I can't Ralph you don't know please I'd rather die please God oh please God Ralph you're hurting me oh no...." Shortly thereafter: "'Oh Ralph,' she breathed, worshipfully, 'Ralph...
...every brand that is trying to unstuffy itself will insist that what the company is doing is not about fashion. They do this partially for the benefit of Wall Street-fashion is cyclical and temporary, and the marketers need to convince investors that their brand will be Armani or Ralph Lauren, never really going off the boil. So how to reposition Coach, a purveyor of high-quality if not sex-drenched handbags, whose turf was being mowed by more fashion-aware companies, such as Kate Spade, and by other designers who were beginning to do handbags...
...Though national and international figures have been more prevalent on the Commencement stage, writers, philosophers and scholars-such as novelists Lady Barbara Ward Jackson in 1957 and Ralph Ellison in 1974--have shared their words with the masses as well. And while they may not have the same potential for international impact, Hunt says, they make up for it in eloquence...
Within nations, as well, cyberactivists are working the system. Last November, U.S. election officials watched the presidential voting system evolve outside their control as supporters of Ralph Nader and Al Gore agreed to swap votes on the Internet. Here's how it worked: a Naderite in a marginal state would vote Gore while a Gore voter in a "safe" Democrat state picked Nader, boosting Gore's support in key states while retaining Nader's popular vote. (The legality of vote swapping is still being debated in some states...