Word: roach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promise was not enough to convince skeptics, even on traditionally Republican Wall Street. Says Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley: "There is not one shred of credible evidence on how Dole will pay for his plan. Fully 65% of the revenue breaks are to be financed by nothing more than wishful thinking. This is as vague as it gets...
...increasingly inaccurate title is an Iowa boy trying to make it in a decidedly bad New York City, where violence is so rampant that the population number falls before our eyes. In perhaps the most implausible sequence even of this movie, he lands a rent-controlled--and roach-controlled--apartment. Joe then spends his time split unevenly between getting a job and fighting off his militant, singing infestation. Then the country-folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan Ward). Golden-haired and slo-mo, she tends...
Other times, the roaches provide witty commentary and do instantly appealing things like watch roach porn on roach public access or pour on to Lily's head on the Big Date night. One other roach public television show, "Charlie Roach," shows a glimpse at the movie's higher comic potential, as does some poking fun at the weird-artist stereotype. Otherwise, the jokes simply aren't consistently good enough to hold up the pillowy filler between Joe's episodic job-hunting and Lily-hunting troubles...
...movie regrettably has several darker, nastier moments that cannot pass unmentioned. At one point two thugs try to kill an inconvenient tenant, a babushka-clad elderly woman, by pushing her down the stairs: we see her crash painfully down to the sound of goofy music. A few roaches rely upon annoying, boring ethnic stereotype voices; these are supposedly swept up in the broad strokes of roach world...
...Angeles, another Union Summer group gathered at 8 o'clock on a recent morning across the street from the Superior Super Warehouse and readied for a "blitz." "You'll be scared," warned veteran organizer Lois Elbornetti. "But don't worry, just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with angry managers shouting, "Get them out of here...