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...recent one: television commercials for Prom Night, which is still cleaning up at theaters and drive-ins, showing teenage girls "making themselves beautiful" for that special event, only to encounter a homicidal maniac. (The ads, incidentally, are more successful than the movie, which turns out to be a dull, inept mystery with actresses closer to menopause than high school.) The not-even-subliminal message is Come see the teenage girls get killed! They've got it coming...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...recent one: television commercials for Prom Night, which is still cleaning up at theaters and drive-ins, showing teenage girls "making themselves beautiful" for that special event, only to encounter a homicidal maniac. (The ads, incidentally, are more successful than the movie, which turns out to be a dull, inept mystery with actresses closer to menopause than high school.) The not-even-subliminal message is Come see the teenage girls get killed! They've got it coming...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...recent one: television commercials for Prom Night, which is still cleaning up at theaters and drive-ins, showing teenage girls "making themselves beautiful" for that special event, only to encounter a homicidal maniac. (The ads, incidentally, are more successful than the movie, which turns out to be a dull, inept mystery with actresses closer to menopause than high school.) The not-even-subliminal message is Come see the teenage girls get killed! They've got it coming...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

There are other "caring" and "honest" individuals in this country who are not also inept and bumbling. Every time someone attempts to discuss the Carter disaster we are told it is not Jimmy's fault. Who is President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 8, 1980 | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...their differences in personality and background, Strauss and Jordan get along well and are ideally matched. Strauss, 61, the wily, experienced tactician, is indispensable to the Georgians, who are still inept in the use of political power. The ebullient Strauss is virtually their only bridge to the real world of politics, and they trust him. Jordan, 35, the brilliant and impetuous young planner, tends to keep himself isolated. Neither man has much use for Ted Kennedy personally, but they both know how tough his opposition was. Earlier that day Strauss felt a surge of optimism that the pressure from Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: View from the Carter Bunker | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

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