Letters, Sep. 1, 1980

Dallas Mania

To the Editors:

After a brutal heat wave, Billygate, Iran and other insanities, there is nothing so refreshing as a tad of honest lust, greed, incest and vicious moneygrubbing à la Dallas [Aug. 11]. J.R. Ewing has restored my faith in escapist TV.

Julie Taylor Webster Groves, Mo.

Like it or not, Dallas provides a panorama of today's America: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Richard C. Migliaccio Oklahoma City

J.R. is no villain, he's a romantic hero. And Larry Hagman is the new Clark Gable, with that same mixture of sex, charm...

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