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While traditional exports are under pressure, the Japanese are busily trying to develop entirely new markets. The government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has offered its blessing -- and a sizable chunk of its budget -- to firms that are moving into such high-tech fields as supercomputers, biotechnology, lasers, aerospace and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Let Us Shake Hands | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

The only people who could care less about Dogs than the audience are the characters. They are disaffected refugees from the stifling mores of their middle-class parents. Rebellion is a fine thing, but this motley bunch of outcasts replace the materialism and hypocrisy of their bourgeois upbringing with complete...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Dog On Screen | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

THE TEASER for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is so entertaining and so intriguing that I was wary of the movie itself. A simple rule usually holds true: good teaser, bad movie. Here's a movie, however, which breaks that rule and quite a few others on its way...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Mermaid To Order | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

Crom's appeal came particularly from his use of the piano, students who attended the show said. Students said they found his three renditions of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"--in the imitative styles of Stephen Sondheim, the Bee Gees and Bruce Springsteen--particularly entertaining.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH, Lampy Sponsor Comedy Night Benefit | 9/30/1987 | See Source »

The Hilton ballroom is sold out, and Cosby, after starting slowly, leaves the crowd howling at his routine on trifocal eyeglasses. In his spacious dressing room between shows, he wolfs rigatoni puttanesca and taps his toe to a jazz tape by Slim Gaillard while entertaining a stream of callers. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Do Believe in Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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