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...event was staged so that Clinton could crow about his accomplishments in an area that obsesses Americans: economic competition with Japan. He and his aides rattled off a raft of figures intended to show how well the U.S. was doing in the rivalry. But where does it really stand right now, and are things as rosy as Clinton's boasting would imply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-JAPAN SCORECARD | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...with a jingly theme song explaining that a mad scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu), is conducting a bizarre "experiment." He has launched into space a satellite containing a human named Mike (head writer Michael J. Nelson) and the automatons Tom Servo (operated and voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (Beaulieu again) and forced them to watch bad films: Ed Wood classics like Bride of the Monster and stuff way, way worse, like the 1965 Attack of the the Eye Creatures--a movie so inept that its makers put the word the twice in the title. Mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ROBOCRITICS TAKE FLIGHT | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Next month the Laserblast episode will take MST3K out in style, with deftly flicked allusions to, among others, Eddie Deezen ("heir to the Arnold Stang fortune"), Ram Dass, Georgia O'Keeffe, Haile Selassie, Sister Mary Elephant, Iron Eyes Cody and Roddy McDowall ("as Dr. Casabamelon"). Crow notes that "this movie was run through a highly technical process called 'tension extraction.'" And in an especially inert section of Laserblast, Servo says what might be said of any MST3K experiment: "There's a point where it stops being a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ROBOCRITICS TAKE FLIGHT | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...because he made me feel young. As long as George was around, I somehow felt like a six-year-old kid sitting in front of the radio watching my family fall down laughing at Burns and Allen's routines. Now, suddenly, liver spots are popping out all over, crow's-feet are marching across my face, and my best friend is Metamucil. Oh, George! PATTI LAUNDERS Nipomo, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1996 | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Kilson places the burden of his "reciprocity imperative" on "White Southerners in particular and White Americans in general." He groups together everyone from the most offensive slave-owners to Jim Crow racists to their descendants to anyone of European ancestry living in the South or holding U.S. citizenship. This group identification is stereotyping, to put it euphemistically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daniels, Kilson Should Try Dialogue Rather than Invective | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

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