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Some of these songs may strike Heads fans as mainstream yuk. Guitars mush with drums which further meld into Byrne's vocals. No instrument stands out enough to give the songs the usual simplicity that demands concentration. Resembling a collection of Bruce Springsteen tunes, most of these songs can only be differentiated by their lyrics...
...Harrold) who are secretly married but continue to share a patrol car against department rules. Their deception gets fairly elaborate: they live in neighboring apartments, for example, that are connected by a hidden door in the bookcase. MacGruder & Loud goes through the cop-show motions, but the off-duty mush is clearly where its heart is set. You can't keep a good genre down. Reports of the sitcom's death, it turns out, were premature; all the genre needed was a healthy dose of adult writing, as proved by The Cosby Show, the new season's biggest hit. Enter...
...vote, makes Ferraro a high-risk, high-gain pick," asserted Democratic Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado. Republicans agree, in a kind of left-handed way. Colorado Republican Chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway, once a campaign manager for Gerald Ford, called the selection of Ferraro "the first excitement, the first non-mush I've seen in Mondale's political career...
...byproduct of this subtle attempt to pacify the American public by sheltering it from the harsh realities of life has producing a disturbing, though by no means novel, phenomenon: Americans prefer banal fantasies and mindless mush to unpleasant docudramas or serious theater. Consequently, when film and television producers make the rare attempt to simulate reality, they generally wind up depicting unconvincing, one-dimensional characters, creating predictable, non controversial situations, and producing stories like One Day at a Time or Happy Days...
...sooner had the court spoken than the predictable outcry was raised by Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, who has spearheaded the entertainment industry's million-dollar lobbying campaign against unrestricted videotaping. Valenti questioned whether the "copyright is real or whether it is mush," and insisted that "the future of creative entertainment of the American family is what's at stake here." Producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky III, The Right Stuff) was being only slightly sarcastic when he said: "Creative people have to eat. With this decision they will make less income. They...