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Concepcion's speech quickens, and then she pauses to apply some more paint to a rock before resuming. "Even people on the street have it easy," Concepcion says. "They get junk food from the garbage cans and are satisfied just because they are brainwashed. I feel discouraged that American people don't want to face reality and have never suffered, get everything easy and that...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: `Get rid of all the crooks' | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...blooded American slapstick jokes, formulaic characters, and racial stereotypes. Everything is familiar and expected, kind of like an old armchair with beer stains that has been sitting in the family basement forever--not particularly attractive or inviting, but no one ever bothers to move it to the junk heap...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: `Major' Strikeout | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Even more painful is Joachim Schlomer's Behind White Lilies, a trendy bit of Euro-junk full of pretentious claptrap involving obscure religious rituals. As for Kevin O'Day's Quartet, there are Tharpian moments -- O'Day danced with Tharp for several years -- but also a lot of bustle and humor that is his own. He looks like a good investment for the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...first couple of days, Young Jin and I used the car to go to Star Market and Blockbuster video because there was nothing to do here but eat junk food and watch videos. As everyone knows, however, there are only so many movies you can watch before you get exhausted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Nudes, Cars, and Montreal | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

Perhaps he hasn't noticed that numerous student publications, pizza, ads, eye exam coupons and other junk are all door-dropped routinely without people writing to The Crimson about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat Resorts to Name-Calling | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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