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...even passed the unemployment hot potato. Says Brown: "It is the crudest kind of political joke. Celeste and the policies of the '70s have created those unemployment lines." Possibly, but the punch line is that Brown is trailing...
...individual voices deal the strongest emotional punch--particularly Bernstein, who varies her tone and character effortlessly from scrappy, Horatio-Alger-like preteen newsboy to gentle, pained, unfulfilled wife and mother, and Barry Mann, who as a migrant worker urging a grapes boycott evokes a universe of hardship and anger in Spanish melody...
...weirdest thing about The Powers of Matthew Star (NBC, Friday, 8-9 p.m. E.D.T.) is its portrait of adolescent America, all milk snacks and malt shops and homecoming games. Barton is so reminiscent of Donny Osmond that the viewer keeps waiting for him to levitate a can of Hawaiian Punch while whistling God Bless America. These shows may be aimed primarily at teens and preteens, but it is only from the canny nonsense of Square Pegs (CBS, Monday, 8-8:30 p.m.) that such viewers are likely to get a buzz of recognition. Weemawee High, happily...
...frantic attempt to find stopgap solutions, the government of Mexico's outgoing President threw a one-two punch that has now transformed this confusion into surreal chaos. It issued a vague edict forbidding Americans to take home certain foods from Mexican markets, and it imposed ill-conceived currency restrictions designed to stem the tide of money flowing out of the country. The result: border towns on both sides are suffering even more...
...trebly, ultra quick patterns are unmistakable. And most pleasant of all is the effort put forth by Kenny Jones, Moon's replacement. Jones manages to combine an abandoned drumming style reminiscent of Moon's with military precision. His rolls fill holes admirably and give the music a heavy, knockout punch sound...