WATCHING EVERYTHING THERE EVER WAS
Television taught me just about everything. If I wanted to be a bigot, I could pattern myself after Archie Bunker, if I wanted to be a consummate hipster, there was Maynard G. Krebs, or if I wanted to be a snivelling creep, there was Eddie Haskell.
WATCHING EVERYTHING THERE EVER WAS
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DREW WHEELER
Television taught me just about everything. If I wanted to be a bigot, I could pattern myself after Archie Bunker, if I wanted to be a consummate hipster, there was Maynard G. Krebs, or if I wanted to be a snivelling creep, there was Eddie Haskell. Aside from shaping my personality, television brought me the most powerful images of our time— events of such global significance as the war in Indochina, the first moonwalk and the Beverly Hillbillies going to England. Well, let’s just say that among our household's appliances, the TV set hoa ’em all beat by a mile.