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| | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
 | | In the show, Mary Tyler Moore plays Mary Richards, a well-integrated, genuinely nice, non-narcissistic character who is stuck with a less than ideal life, for a new, less optimistic, age. |
 | | The newsroom, which is the main site of the action, along with Mary's studio apartment, is a kind of trap of banality, made more livable by the fact that Mary is able to bond with the men on her right and left, as if they are her family. |
 | | Mary Tyler Moore turned out to be the nexus for, and force behind, some of the best stuff on television. |
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