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...since Husker Du was regarded as the loudest, grungiest, most health-hazardous band in the land. It the meantime, the Minnesota trio has taken off to a major label, college popularity and musical mediocrity. But now there emerges a new contender for the ramshackle throne abdicated by Bob Mould et alia, a contender going by the name of Squirrelbait...
...many states are making a start. Massachusetts and California claim impressive results from "workfare" programs. The one in Massachusetts, called ET, is voluntary, but California's Project GAIN is mandatory. Nine states submitted to the White House Domestic Policy Council proposals for demonstration projects that they hope will get federal approval. North Carolina would require all able-bodied recipients to satisfy a minimum work requirement in exchange for benefits. Pennsylvania proposed to reward welfare clients who got full-time jobs with cash grants for day care, medical insurance for one year and a cash subsidy if their wages...
...Kopit and his fellow practitioners of Nuclear Lit better cop this lesson from Hollywood, and either put up good stuff or shut up. Rehashing Kubrick may work for a while--the short memory of the American public and all that--but the thinking, influential audiences, Kopit et. al. are seeking will be the least likely to swallow completely derivative swill...
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Thus, this Golden Child has ET's golden touch, Murphy has the swashbuckling bravado of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the demon has satanic transformations a la Poltergeist. More miraculous than the storyline, though, is the fact that this movie is, indeed, entertaining. The credit, of course, goes entirely to Murphy, who revels in the silliness and delivers his lines with effortless hilarity...