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Lately, Hadzi's work has been moving in a new direction. In his own words, he is "getting away from the Baroque and Hellenistic influences and to much simpler and more powerful forms." Also, he has begun working in stone...
...dark side of the American Dream; a Godfearing, hardworking, lower-middle-class Protestant who wallowed in a simpler past and dreamed of better times ahead. The king of his own humble castle at 704 Houser Street in Queens, N.Y., Archie Bunker, played unfalteringly by Carroll O'Connor, entered into the American consciousness on a chilly Tuesday night in January 1971, when a nervous CBS first aired All in the Family. Archie, Wife Edith, Daughter Gloria and Son-in-Law Mike were a nuclear family born out of fission as they grappled with such TV taboos as racism, impotence, abortion...
Recognizing alcoholism is simpler than pinpointing its causes. Says Vaillant: "The warning signs of alcoholism are when a person finds himself doing things when drinking that he regrets afterward, or if he has ever gone on the wagon, or tried to change brands to control his drinking." Some other danger signals: five or more drinks daily; problems with family or friends or at work over drinking; two or more blackouts while drinking...
...current oil glut could hold the seeds of a future shortage. The ailing energy industry, however, may have finally and painfully absorbed an even simpler notion: booms have a way of becoming busts...
...homespun, Main Street appeal of the figure whom Fred Allen called "the man with the barefoot voice" brought to mind images from a simpler America: Will Rogers, Huckleberry Finn. Sentimental Godfrey choked up while narrating President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral for CBS Radio and shed tears on TV while listening to a women's quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. He shocked (and delighted) housewives by using a toy outhouse as a comic prop. Performing a chicken noodle soup commercial for one of his TV sponsors, Lipton's, Godfrey made a cup, spooned through...