Word: structuralist
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...around Babs people are crushed by cliches. Her husband, an adman, is worn down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives...
...several scenes, points the direction to Wall Street as well as to the cafeteria. One of the show's subplots involves the quarrels between the aspiring lady capitalist of the 1980s and her boyfriend, a self-styled Che Guevara--ever-ready to spout bleeding heart liberalism and Marxist structuralist dogma...