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This reductio ad absurdum of TV's talk-show mania has had funny sequences, like Jim Belushi joining in an inept neighborhood game of charades: while the women whiz through titles like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the men are stumped by Jaws. But the Hollywood-meets-the-heartland satire falls a little flat. My Talk Show is too straitlaced and good-natured; it needs a bit of the rudeness of Late Night with David Letterman. Or at least some quirkier performers. Where have you gone, Louise Lasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: My In-Law, The Housefly | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Ishaq Khan dismissed her government on August 6 after she held power 20 months. He accused her of heading the most corrupt and inept government in Pakistan's history...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Bhutto's Party Loses Election | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

Bush and Darman believe they have already said too much about taxes without getting anything in return -- and aides point to the President's slipping approval ratings to prove it. In fact, the Administration's inept handling of its plan to cut back state and local income tax deductions two weeks ago sped the talks' collapse. At one point, both sides were close to pulling off what Darman calls "a no fingerprints" budget, in which each party simultaneously put forth complete budget plans. By doing so, says one aide, "no party could take advantage of the other." But the immaculate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deficit of Guts | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...dissolving the National Assembly, the law-making lower house of Pakistan's parliament, Ishaq Khan said Bhutto's government was corrupt and politically inept. As head of state, Ishaq Khan has the constitutional power to dissolve the government if he believes it can no longer carry out its duties...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Bhutto Deposed by Pakistan's President | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

...clear who Gorbachev was against, it was less certain who he was for. Russian prime minister Alexander Vlasov, the party candidate, was withdrawn before the first round of balloting, after his inept delivery of an annual report. His replacement, Ivan Polozkov, was so hard-line that many Gorbachev supporters could not vote for him, and he lost twice. Vlasov was trotted out again for the third round. On the night before he left for the summit, Gorbachev called a meeting of some 400 Deputies at the party Central Committee headquarters and suggested that they vote for Vlasov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union But Back Home . . . | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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