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Their secret, they divulge in sober tones, is that they do what they do to the best of their ability. "It's like punk rock music," Cheech pipes in. "The best musicians in the world can't play that crap. The best art in the world comes from the soul...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...movie or TV show always involves considerable risk. But the real high rollers are in the theater, and opening night in Manhattan is always a kind of crap game. Within two hours the play is either a success or a flop. Either way, years may have gone into the production, and the story behind the play is often more interesting than the play itself. To find out what goes on, TIME's Elaine Dutka spent three weeks behind the scenes of William Hamilton's Save Grand Central, a comedy of manners in which two couples find happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Long Road to Broadway | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

NINETY PER CENT of everything is crap," Theodore Sturgeon, the science fiction author, once observed, and that analysis certainly holds true for science fiction's third cousin, electronic music. With electronic music--and in particular with synthesizers--so many people working within the idiom are crass imitators of others' modest successes...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: Mondo-Meltdown Rockers | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

Fred Friendly, media critic and former CBS News president, on TV programming: "The news is the one thing networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 14, 1980 | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...servants-and he pays the $975-a-day bill for his New York hospital suite promptly. But the Shah last week whiled away much of his time in the unregal pastime that many hospital patients are reduced to: watching television. Said one of doctors: "He watches some real crap. Westerns. Detective movies. Bad romances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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