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...initially, anyhow. The record business is primed for another monster hit. The great pop-culture dream machine needs the kind of lube job only an icon like Jackson can deliver. With advance orders of 2 million, there will be a lot of Bad around, and it is useless to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Badder They Come | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...consumer. A confessed "popcorn freak," he savored the brand made by Golden Valley Microwave Foods, and so he bought the company's stock. It has gone up nearly 70% in value during the past year. In another instance, Determan was so impressed with the service at Jiffy Lube International, a franchised auto-service chain, that he bought 3,000 shares at 9 1/2. Current price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Wild Bull | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...supposed to be a warning has turned into a marketing tool." Teens who stay up past 8 p.m. can watch R-rated films on pay cable, and at midnight, Manhattan minors can watch Robin Byrd, the G- stringed host and self-described "X-rated Ed Sullivan" of Manhattan's lube tube. "My show is for adults," she says. "If children watch it, it's because parents aren't doing their job." So it would seem. In 1985 Manhattan Cable (a subsidiary of Time Inc.) offered its 228,000 subscribers the option of a "lock box" so parents could scramble Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA Turned On? Turn It Off | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Finally, I burst out of the hodge-podge of bricked up warehouses and auto-body shops onto a street that promised homes. Eager to escape death in the shadow of a "Lube Job $29.99" sign, I dived down the road. A quick left and I was deep in a sea of California ranch houses...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Magical Mystery Tour | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

...Boob Lube Profits...

Author: By Heidi M. James, Stephen J. Parkey, and John M. Ricardi, S | Title: Professors See Owner Victory In Tentative NFL Settlement | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

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