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...that a couple of minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with an almost infinite slyness about the tricky uses to which words can be put, makes Mamet a superb entertainer. He is a sort of American version of Harold Pinter, but funnier, raunchier and with a keener sense of the particularities of time and place...

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

...hear the 26 juniors, seniors and graduate students in Jones' "Humor in Communications" class, jokes are jokes--and the raunchier the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Brings Jokes to Class | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...embracing Williams on the back cover of Cry of the Heart, was a close companion in the playwright's declining years. Unlike Spoto, he evokes the winsome qualities of Williams' naughtiness and ructions, the merriment as well as the anguish of that time. Rader's reminiscences are if anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto's tome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glimmers the KINDNESS OF STRANGERS and CRY OF THE HEART | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young man tap dancing as he undresses to the theme from Star Wars. Click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Troubled Times for the Networks | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...Supreme Court struck down the public-access obligation on a federal level in early April. Local authorities can still compel cable operators to make available public-access air time, and cable companies cannot legally remove the raunchier shows. Still, the Supreme Court ruling gave cable operators somewhat more authority to choose from among programs that they think will actually arouse some interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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