Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many writers and First Amendment experts. "The idea that the more you fictionalize, the more you falsify, the more liable you become is quite intolerable," argues Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even though the settlement creates no binding precedent, any Anderson victory, says Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew), is "bad news for writers of fiction. It will open the floodgates for more cases like this...
...only of the accuracy with which it mirrors the inattentiveness of a culture benumbed by television. Its main debts are to James Rosenquist, for the big, juxtaposed image fragments, and to Francis Picabia, for the unassimilated layering of outline images over solid ones in that painter's late, wretchedly bad paintings. But where appropriation is concerned, it is not etiquette to speak of debt...
Continuing bad news on the international trade front, and the passion that it arouses, had finally made Administration action politically unavoidable. Last week the Commerce Department revealed that the trade deficit for 1986 totaled $169.8 billion, a record. The only bright light in the dismal picture was the fact that the monthly deficit in December was only $10.7 billion, down dramatically from the $19.2 billion recorded a month earlier. That may be a sign, though not a definitive one, that the continuing slide of the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen and the West German mark, which makes U.S. products...
...sleep through. Though Gorbachev went on for some three hours, there was hardly a dull moment. The General Secretary of the Communist Party had a bracing message for his colleagues in the Kremlin: the Soviet socialist system is a mess and must be fixed. As if that were not bad enough, Gorbachev went on, "it is the leading bodies of the party and the state that bear the responsibility for all this...
...been overbilling it. But it was an important chance to demonstrate that he was taking charge of the Iranscam mess and to advance imaginative new goals that might help him recapture the initiative. One Republican strategist who has long worked with Reagan admitted privately that it was a bad speech for the current situation, but that the President used it because he felt comfortable with...