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That Seventies Show.(Swingtown)(Television program review)
"Swingtown," a new summer drama on CBS, is set squarely and pointedly in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, the year that America--having left Vietnam, having lanced the boil that was Richard Nixon and not yet become annoyed by the President it was about to elect--started to maybe, just a little bit, fall in love with itself again. That, anyway, is one of any number of possible one-sentence summations of the time. By 1976, some of the currents of the sixties--women's liberation and youth culture--had become mainstream; family men sported longer sideburns; schoolteachers looked a little more unbuttoned; mothers started wearing pants and shorter skirts, and going to work; ...
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