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...lyrics cleverly depict the life of blue-collar America in the age of Reagan: "Home Shopping Club's got us by the eyes/Scrambling to the phone ordering porcelain flies/Talk to the women talk to the wives/Everybody's buying important things for their lives." Hornsby even mentions his presidential target by name: "Let it ring, George," he belts...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Going Beyond That Hornsby Sound | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

Until recently, authorities have been largely inclined to stay clear of pop culture or artwork -- areas where obscenity convictions could be almost impossible to obtain -- and concentrate instead on hard-core porn. Los Angeles prosecutors, by targeting materials that depict bestiality, defecation, sex with children and the torture of women, won all 26 obscenity cases they have brought since 1988. At the federal level, the Justice Department secured 120 obscenity indictments last year, up sharply from 26 in 1987. But the department's National Obscenity Enforcement Unit has tended to focus on nationwide wholesalers of the hard-core stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rap Against a Rap Group | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...Miss February of that year. But because the cost of sending dividend checks and providing other services to all those one-share stockholders amounts to $100,000 a year, Playboy has decided to discourage souvenir collectors by issuing new certificates. Printed for the first time last week, the shares depict a "classically styled" woman holding aloft a globe to symbolize the company's international ambitions. Most notably, she is robed in a long, flowing gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCKS: Playboy Covers Up | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...also represent the painter and muralist Michelangelo. As you know from Variety, he is just finishing the sketches for his big Sistine Chapel production. Mike has never before offered product placements in his works, so this is a rare opportunity for a shrewd advertiser. The ceiling will depict the moment of creation -- Adam and God with arms outstretched to each other and fingers touching. It's dynamite, I promise you. For $20,000, Adam could be wearing a Rolex watch; for $40,000, God could wear one; for $60,000, both. Although Mike is committed to the concept of Adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: These Foolish Things Remind Me of Diet Coke | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

Take last Monday night's prime-time schedule. Murphy Brown and Capital News depict journalistic superstars strutting down the corridors of power in Washington. Working Girl is climbing her way into the upper echelons of New York corporate life; next maybe Tess will be dating Donald Trump. In Atlanta the Designing Women are even less likely than Scarlett O'Hara ever to be hungry again. Newhart is living the yuppie fantasy of owning a Vermont country inn. Even the downwardly mobile Philadelphia lawyer of Shannon's Deal can still manage to take a first date out for a $172 restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What A Waste of (Prime) Time | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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