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Although it may be said that the Japanese are "better capitalists," Americans need to think not only about the "better-ness," he said, but also about the "different-ness...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Author: Culture is Key To U.S.-Japan Struggle | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...explains to an unseen partner that he cannot love her because Your Feet's Too Big, and he and De Shields are a hoot expressing scorn and envy for a rival whom they see as Fat and Greasy. De Shields belts 'T Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do in an up tempo that may be delightfully surprising to fans of Billie Holiday's torchy rendition, and revels in marijuana in The Viper's Drag. Woodard, too little used, nonetheless glows in Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, while McQueen is at her best in Squeeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Rowdy Romp into the Past AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

What is troubling in his work is a moral ambiguity that verges on cynicism, coupled with a high-minded tone that verges on sanctimony. In The Untouchables he claimed the authority of history to invent a fictitiously murderous Eliot Ness and, worse, a guilty plea made for Al Capone by his attorney against the mobster's will. That is something that could not happen in any court still observing the fundamentals of the Constitution. In Speed-the-Plow Mamet makes the unastonishing revelation that movie moguls are venal and pandering. Perhaps he means to prick spectators' consciences by holding them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Madonna Comes to Broadway | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Anne Frank, a play produced everywhere, always, given an Ex slot? Watson's answer: "It's very conservative-ness made it experimental...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Ex Marks the Spot | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Amazons | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

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