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...more and more painfully, and in Britain the promised Thatcher recovery did not begin. By last autumn, the public mood had turned sour. When the poor year-end statistics were made public, Thatcher was being pilloried for what Labor's Denis Healey, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, called her "punk monetarism." Said Eric Varley, Labor's spokesman on employment matters: "The consequences of this doctrinaire obsession are still wreaking havoc in every part of the country." Thatcher's own Industry Secretary, Sir Keith Joseph, glumly admitted that his government "lost the first year," and the Economist magazine, which had supported...
...tend to sound silly when they deliver his messages: in Scanners, Hero Stephen Lack is too hammy, Evil Genius Patrick McGoohan too wry. But pleas for Old Vic or New Hollywood performances miss the point. If Lack, McGoohan and Heroine Jennifer O'Neill act like mannequins in a punk boutique window, fine. At any moment-at least in a David Cronenberg movie-the figures could escape to the street, walk up to you and bump! aarrgh! sploooosh...
Schell speaks Chinese and can end-run an official travel brochure; yet, he never seems certain if Benefit-the-People was a pimp or just a young punk playing at the second oldest profession. What impresses him is the new willingness of many Chinese to assert their opinions and desires. Says one young woman who dreams of becoming a fashion designer: "Of course I want what is best for myself during my life. I think that is only human nature." Schell finds such sentiments to be radical departures from the orthodoxy of the founding father. It is as if people...
Coming Attractions. Laughing all the way to and through the bunkum, Playwright Ted Tally has written a sizzling satire about how media peddlers can translate punk killers into instant goldbug celebrities...
Double Fantasy, the new record, demonstrated that. Ono's contributions are especially accessible and congenial after years of punk and New Wave conditioning. John's songs, simple, direct and melodic, were celebrations of love and domesticity that asked for, and required, no apology. It was not a great record, like Plastic Ono Band, but it might have been the start of another time of greatness...