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...subject in which conversation is blunt and unambiguous is sex. On their first date, Jack and Wally kiss briefly, then she suddenly blurts out, "Would you like to have sex?" They proceed to debate the possibility with all the emotional involvement of a discussion of tax policy on Wall Street Week. There are gag lines that must have had the show's writers in stitches ("Your condom or mine?"), but the whole encounter is contrived and phony, like too much of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Generation Gap | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...inventor who has patented a safer, blunt-end type of ear-cleaning cotton swab says he got the idea from Hammer's flattop. Next: a feather duster that looks like Don King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Sep. 7, 1992 | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...welcome the international effort to fly in food and medicine but are worried that the relief operation is treating the symptom of shortage, not the cause. What Sarajevans want above all else is to see the aggressor routed. "A necessary evil" is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko's blunt term for the United Nations' hard-won airlift. "I wish the airport hadn't been opened in this way, because it has actually slowed down the liberation of Sarajevo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns Now, Butter Later | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

Though he told friends after his confirmation that he wanted to be out of the spotlight for a while, Thomas' first-term rulings were pugnacious, blunt and, for a new Justice, relatively numerous. He wrote nine opinions for the majority, four concurrences and eight dissents. "Thomas hit the ground running," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar. "He's in there mixing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Thomas | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...Blunt talk on trade marked a private meeting between Dan Quayle and Kiichi Miyazawa during the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Washington last week. The Vice President brought up the troubled U.S.-JAPAN BUSINESS COUNCIL, which has been holding talks aimed at lowering trade barriers. Prospects looked good after President Bush visited Japan in January. But progress stalled last month when Japanese members abruptly denied that problems exist. Snapped a Japanese CEO to his U.S. counterparts: "You just aren't competitive." The seething Americans threatened to quit the council. After Quayle complained at length over breakfast with Miyazawa last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Up or Else | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

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