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‘Dallas’: Who shot the 1970s?

    June 17, 2012

Wednesday’s return of “Dallas,” after 21 years, was “an embarrassing throwback,” according to USA Today, and clearly outdated, said Salon. Those assessments may have chafed some nerves at Southfork, but brought some relief at another iconic white house with columns. After all, no cultural event more perfectly bridged the transition from the lowered thermostats of the Jimmy Carter era to the exploding gushers of Ronald Reagan’s 1980s.

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