Altus Senior High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Altus, OK)

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 To help her ratings, the Carol Burnett show was moved from Satur- day night to Sunday. Sweet and innocent Donny and Marie changed their TV image to sexy and sophisticated, which in turn, made them lose their All-American boy and girl image. Family shows, Eight is Enough , The Fitzpa- tricks and James at 15 gained popularity. A wider variety of televi- sion games were made available to the nation's TV bugs by the use of game cartridges. Giant-wide screen TV was made available to homes to the tune of $1,000. This year, the escape 5

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 Jo ojMu , %r ° • Ck Cy j yxK mstf c?nr,Iu2 Wrt i W T-A fl idoKA-JL er JiiJvM.. ‘te Jkfiap isf v J hhQ. ! ... velocity of US culture reached the speed of light. In the movie theatres, Star Wars rocketed its way toward the biggest gross in movie history (at $3. per head) transporting millions of people into an interga- lactic shoot out using a simple good guy-bad guy” plot outline. The most engaging moving star turned out to be a stubby tin can named R2-D2 from the Star Wars flick. Another movie Rocky which won the 1977 Acade- my Awards, warmed the hearts of every warm blooded American, while George Burns in the movie Oh, God! was tickling them. Still adjudged the best feature film ever made was the classic “Gone With the Wind. Games, toys and dolls deplicting these TV and movie characters were at the top of many Christmas lists. In the pop rock music, the talk of the town was Rumors” as the Fleetwood Mac Album swept award after award at the annual American...........