Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIKE AMERICA, AUSTRALIA IS A melting-pot nation, populated by immigrants from various countries--including Ireland. It is not entirely surprising, then, that some Australian cultural forms greatly resemble those of the Irish. One example of such cultural emulation is All Fools Day by one of Australia's most popular underground bands, the Saints. Although the Saints hail from down under, their latest musical effort would rather roam the green hills of a certain Northern land--preferably by the side of Van Morrison, Ireland's greatest singer...
Enter Fox. That three-letter nickname may one day be as familiar to TV viewers as ABC, CBS and NBC. Right now it is short for Fox Broadcasting Co., the most ambitious effort yet to create a full-fledged fourth network. Financed by Australian-born Press Baron Rupert Murdoch (who in 1985 added 20th Century-Fox studios and the Metromedia chain of independent TV stations to his worldwide media holdings), Fox made its first foray into national programming in October with The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Though Rivers' ratings in the battle against Johnny Carson have been disappointing...
...idea of a wacky, no-holds-barred goofy kind of outback Australian making his way through the wilds of New York is a charming concept. All sorts of neat possibilities come to mind. Unfortunately, none of them came to Paul Hogan. Instead he offers dumb and offensive jokes about the tribal origins of Blacks and hackneyed scenes of whores and innocents. This is one film that deserves to be transported back to the other side of the earth...
...turned my attention down under, to Foster's, which promotes itself as: "Foster's, it's Australian for beer, mate." In the commercial, Paul "Crocodile Dundee" Hogan was shown clubbing a fish with a baseball bat. Now, Hogan is an affable looking chap and the ad showed promise so I checked out the brew. I found, however, a serious flaw with Foster's in the size of the can. No matter how good the first two-thirds of any Foster's, it takes the better part of a day to reach the room-temperature dregs. So I nixed Australia...
...trawler, owned jointly by Australian and Arab companies, was on contract to Iran. An owners' representative said in Dubai that the ship was being towed to Dubai and the company had decided to pull out all its 10-trawler fleet from the area...