Realism in Sitcoms and TV Gaffes
Gus Schrader critiques TV sitcom conventions from camera angles to set design, door scenes, and canned laughter. He questions realism in dinner table layouts, live audience labeling, and repeated audience demands for familiar songs and lines. He notes diminishing on-screen smoking in old films and ponders how demonstrators’ signs appear on American TV.
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Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz
Lucy
Ol’ Desi
Tony Bennett
San Francisco
IBP delays Waterloo pork plant opening
IBP Inc postpones the Waterloo pork plant startup from April 16 to May 3 due to electrical wiring delays. Plant manager Jim Schmitz cites unfinished wiring and the need to tune equipment for safety and performance. Officials expect up to 400 production workers initially, with total employment reaching about 1,500. construction began in spring 1988 on a $40 million complex in the northeast section of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
IBP Pork
Jim Schmitz
IBP
Disturbed students show unexpected gains after high school
Rob Carson and Alan Frank presented Iowa data on behaviorally disturbed BD high school students from 1984 85 and 86 surveys one year three years and five years out Findings show few BD graduates enter jail few attain felony convictions many work and support themselves employment quality is low and mental health services are underused Most BD dropouts pursue private training rather than college and both groups face low benefit jobs
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Iowa
Alan Frank
Division of
Special Education
Eer of
Carson
Tuesday Frank
Frank
New murder trial ordered for Yvette Myers in Cedar Rapids
Iowa Court of Appeals rules Linn County trial erred by not ordering a competency hearing before Yvette Myers non jury trial for second degree murder in the June 1987 death of her mother Rosemary Myers. The decision orders a new trial and competency tests, while upholding other Eastern Iowa murder appeals.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
New SE
Iowa
U.S. Territories
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Rod Boshart
Des Moines
ES Moines
Iowa Court of Appeals
Linn
Lynne Brady
Yvette Marie Myers
Rosemary
Albert Habbab
Dick Schlegel
Myers
Iowa Department of Human Services
Linn County
Bing
Jacalyn May
Justin
Jason
Farris
Robert Kern
Ady Jensen
Iowa City
Cedar County
West Branch
Perry Scott Baker
Dubuque County
Jennifer Jones
Platteville
Wis
Dubuque
Baker
Jones
Justice Seeks Fairer Standards in Parental Rights Cases
A 3-0 Iowa Court of Appeals panel overturned a Dubuque County Juvenile Court ruling to terminate a mother's rights, urging less emphasis on removing children from poor families and more on aiding parenting. Justice Rosemary Sackett pressed for focus on family support over harsh terminations while noting the rise in such cases.
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Rod Boshart
ES Moines
Iowa
App of Appeals
Rosemary Sackett
Dubuque County
Sackett
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