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The Quiet Feminism of Norman Lear’s Middle-Aged Women

Amid the 1970s television landscape selling obvious sex and youth, Norman Lear understood the magnetism of older everyday women. Mr. Lear, who died on Tuesday at 101, has long gotten credit for being the first to train the television spotlight on issues of racism and class, war and poverty, to create plots centered on hot-button […]

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