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...anger in the double entendre If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It. Her husky, lisping Body and Soul, however, comes off as a Carol Channing impersonation. Linda Hopkins, a 1972 Tony winner (Inner City), finds dignity in Come Sunday but loses it in her gleeful giggling about wife beating in T'aint Nobody's Bizness if I Do. While Carrie Smith displays a howitzer voice in I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man, she overdecorates the end of Am I Blue and dissipates the emotional payoff. All three, given their ample proportions, should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gorgeous Fun, but Not Funky | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...program's honest portrayal of blue-collar family life is, indeed, unusual for network TV, though hardly unprecedented. Its forebears range from The Honeymooners and All in the Family to, more recently, the Fox network's raunchy satire Married . . . with Children. Still, the show's grungy ambience and gleeful puncturing of TV ideals of happy domesticity have made it the most daring new sitcom of the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sharp Tongue in the Trenches: Roseanne Barr | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Luckily, campaign chairman John Sasso is back to run the attack against the Bush strategy. He has already contacted some of his reporter buddies with actual footage of Bush at age twelve swigging, alas, a Coke and not a Pepsi. A gleeful Sasso located the clip with the help of Kitty Dukakis ally Senator Steve Symms from Idaho...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Choice of a Pop Generation | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...Rather proclaim that "astrology has been given a new legitmacy," as if it were a neutral fact. I think this new boom in superstition is bad news of the first order. Television coverage of late has been limited to interviews with psuedoscientists and their devotees, who naturally are gleeful about the recent turn of events. The press seems afraid to point out how stupid a belief in astrology is, how discredited a "science" it is, and how silly it is of Reagan to be mixed up with...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Reagan's Starry-Eyed Idealism | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

Liberals and civil rights activists were raising a bigger question: Is this the first sign that the conservatives are poised for a wholesale re- examination of other major decisions involving civil rights, abortion and privacy? Conservatives were gleeful about the prospect of the court's revisiting the kind of decision they have been grumbling about for decades. Says Bruce Fein of the right-wing Heritage Foundation: "Better now than never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Play It Again, Says the Court | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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