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Merrill Lynch tech analyst Steven Milunovich recently suggested that cash-rich firms like Microsoft should begin paying dividends to shareholders. Then consumer advocate Ralph Nader wrote an open letter badgering Microsoft chairman Gates to do just that...
...Steven N. Jacobs
...Family.” The working-class Bunker family, though less educated and refined than the Keatons, was just as diverse politically. The frequent debates between bigoted conservative Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael mirror those between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents. The uniqueness and cultural importance of “Family Ties” lie in the precocity of Alex, Mallory, Jennifer and even little Andy. Their...
...Keatons entered our homes 20 years ago as the MTV generation entered the world. Yet the Keatons were by no means a stereotypical yuppie family, let alone a typical sitcom family. The Keaton parents were hippies to the bone—Elyse a folk-singing flower girl and Steven a draft-dodging pacifist. To their dismay, they birthed four yuppies-to-be, led by one Alex P. Keaton, a card-carrying Young Republican with a blazer over his shoulder, a tie around his neck and a picture of William F. Buckley on his wall...
...concerned with taking a political stance. Politics were always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with a painted portrait of the family. When Steven interrupts Alex’s prom at an elitist country club to protest the club’s policies, Alex imparts some perspective: “Dad, I’m 17. When I see Kimberly Blanton in a strapless gown, I don’t look past...