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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State University in Minnesota, was annoyed last fall when she saw an advertisement for the TV series Dynasty displaying three female characters under the headline BITCH, BITCH, BITCH. She wrote to Fallon McElligott, the award-winning Minneapolis ad agency responsible for the promotion, objecting to what she called its "male gonad" style. That phrase riled an employee at the agency, which regularly does pro bono work for women's groups and organizations promoting children's rights. His response was, well, intemperate: a photo of what appeared to be an African child kissing the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Kiss That Job Goodbye | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...Simmons' comments are equally ludicrous The other minority/Black people, male and female, running or having run HRAAA would be astonished to know that they were "white persons." I know I am. HRAAA is not racist and has turned away no one who has offered their time and talent on its behalf. While the idea of the white people in HRAAA withering away or ceasing to exist may be an intriguing proposition to Simmons, it is not realistic or desirable in what is, like it or not, a pluralistic society. (There is also a certain irony in someone leaving an organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concerning Allegations of Racism in the AAA | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...comedians joke the essence of being a Jewish male is to feel shame and guilt, then lately I have been an excellent son of Israel. I can't read the newspaper or watch television news broadcasts because reports of fighting in the West Bank and Gaza strip make me nauseous...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Solution For Israel | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

Answer: until 3 Men and a Baby began gathering its December momentum. Here was an amiable, air-headed fable about baby love. Its male leads were two TV stars, Tom Selleck and Ted Danson, who had never seemed big enough for the big screen and a third, Steve Guttenberg, best known for fronting the Police Academy farces. The story -- of three roguish bachelors forced to care for an abandoned infant -- cradled few surprises and, for great barren stretches, got lost in a draggy drug plot. The film's direction had all the comic subtlety one would expect from that Merlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Return of Comedy as King | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...much like death," slinks out for a bit of tart on the side. Loretta's mother (Olympia Dukakis) dines furtively with a professor (John Mahoney) who keeps striking out with his prettiest students. "I'm too old for you," Mother tells the prof, to which he gives the eternal male response: "I'm too old for me. That's my predicament." And Loretta, just engaged to an agreeable loser (Danny Aiello), is seduced by her fiance's one-handed brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage). He has no illusions about love. "We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Return of Comedy as King | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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