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...learn who had the girls, the cars, the clothes and the prestige. When he was 13, he was jumped by a dozen local gang members, who beat him savagely. He fought back like a wild animal, and his courage earned him the status of a home boy, the generic street name for a fellow gang member. He had been accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...traditions -- will be spared from the literalists, complaining both that the gore is too real and that the characters are not real enough. Protect them as well from the wrath of the traditionalists, who resist the intrusion of originality on their passion for the endless restatement of stale generic conventions. Deliver them instead to the audience that will be galvanized, as the filmmakers were, by the chance to reimagine all the cliches of crime fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The American Grain THE UNTOUCHABLES | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...with glumness and rancor, and one was wrong. It is still a show with marked ideological prejudices. Clearly, the Whitney curators resist realist painting, and their promotion of media-based conceptual imagery over more directly pictorial forms of intelligence verges on intellectual snobbery (for example, Richard Prince's boringly generic reflections on photo reproduction, or Bruce Nauman's neon pieces, or Barbara Kruger's snootily virtuous samplers bearing such commonplaces as I SHOP THEREFORE I AM). But no one could accuse it of the air-headedness that marked its immediate predecessor. This is a tighter, more conservative Biennial, attentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Navigating A Cultural Trough | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...proscribed words to be uttered on the air at a time of day when children might be listening. Last week, however, the commission announced it will now use the wider definition. Said FCC General Counsel Diane Killory: "The interpretation has been too narrow. We will apply the generic definition and not limit it arbitrarily to seven specific words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Daze The FCC tries to clear the air | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...another example of a disaffected group of young people defecating on a classic. Like Sid Vicious' rendition of "My Way," this tune is good for only a few minor chuckles before it gets shelved. Similarly, the straight thrash of "Rat Velvet" and "Sneakyville" is loud but ultimately generic...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Lemon Joy | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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