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Comedy, social commentary--call it what you will--Joshua is mediocre schlock Schlockhas many relatives, easily understood by attaching a prefix to define precisely the derived form's relationship to the tradition. I cite several of the most exemplary: rock-schlock (Spinal Tap), cock-schlock (Porky's has this covered) and lock-schlock (prison classics like the oh-so-shameful The Longest Yard...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Not So Good Schlock | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

...Administration and Congress are going to do about the outsize dollar and trade imbalances. That they have to do something, and quickly, is not in any doubt. The U.S. trade deficit, or excess of imports (shoes and shirts from Taiwan, cars, steel, just about anything made in Japan, to cite some particularly contentious items) over exports (farm products, jet planes, computers are major ones), is heading toward a record $150 billion this year. That is nearly four times what it was as recently as 1981. The surge in imports and lag in exports are beginning to hold back the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Barriers | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...your answers, demonstrate how your past and present accomplishments qualify you for the available position. Answer a question whenever possible with specific and concrete examples. Cite instances where your contributions to a group or activity got results. Try to pick out the specific functions of the job that you can relate to your own experiences...

Author: By John Noble, | Title: Prepare, prepare, prepare for that interview | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...President completely represents the national interest. Congress, they note, has on more than one occasion produced a budget bristling with a hodge-podge of local and special interest-pleasing items. No dispute so far. But will the proposed solution, the line-item veto, solve the problem which proponents cite, or might the consequences be more drastic than proponents tell...

Author: By Gregory D. Rowe, | Title: Selling Your Soul to the President | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...could cite the Texas artist John Alexander, 40. Despite occasional derailments into a sort of demonic cartooning, Alexander's spiky, haunted style is one of intense graphic vitality. He has revived cliches of ferocious nature and made them work in an absolutely authentic way. His Hobbesian sense of the world, the battle of all against all, extends from the swamps of Louisiana (populated by a tangled bestiary of paranoid deer, coons, foxes, bright-eyed, indifferent herons and fish-chomping alligators, glaring at one another like bikers on Methedrine) to the boardrooms of the Sunbelt. Thanks to a Baptist background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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