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...more the plot is subordinated to poetry, the more Coming through Slaughter makes sense. In the middle of a brawl in the barbershop, Bolden, his chest bleeding, begins mumbling a monologue: "I'm dead...you're crazy, the painful ache... the rain into my head..." he moans...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: The Poetry Of Pain | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...also raved about Burt Reynolds' W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings. Reviewing the new Stroker Ace, a dreary bomb starring Reynolds and Loni Anderson, he found much to praise: "Five motor-vehicle chases. Eight crashes. No beasts. No breasts, but Loni comes close. One beer-joint brawl. One guy through a plate-glass window and into the swim pool. No kung fu. No plot. Two and a half stars (one off for lack of sufficient Loni anatomy). Joe Bob says check it out." Drive-ins may be down, but in Alamo country, fans like Joe Bob will defend them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dark Clouds over the Drive-ins | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...intricate and compact life?119 million of them crowded onto islands the size of Montana. No new blood, or little, has entered the Japanese gene pool for 1,200 years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose chromosomes are a genetic brawl, an ingathering from all the tribes of the world. America is an intellectual dream, a reverie of the Enlightenment. The American civic principle is freedom and equality. The Japanese civic logic is mutual obligation, hierarchy, and the overriding primacy of the group. Japan is governed by on, by an almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...minicars and built the firm into Japan's third largest auto manufacturer behind Toyota and Nissan. In industries that are growing, MITI has been unable to curb competition. "It's a free-for-all," says James Abegglen, vice president of the Boston Consulting Group, "like a barroom brawl with no mercy shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting It Out | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

Congress and the White House are still embroiled in their long-running budget brawl. The House and Senate approved a budget plan last week aimed at holding the 1984 deficit to no more than $179 billion, but the President opposes the agreement because it calls for more social spending and less for defense than he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Some Real Muscle | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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