Word: schlock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beverly Hills hotel that they're spoiled by cheap labor, cheap oil and cheap sex. He tells black churchgoers to go easy on the malt liquor and give up on the "running back who stabbed his wife." He shocks a group of cosseted movie moguls by calling their product schlock...
BREAKUP NO SCHLOCK FOR MURDOCH...
Rock is, as 1997 made abundantly clear, dead. The biggest tour of the year was the Rolling Stones. The radio spewed out second-rate schlock. The Pixies, once college radio's greatest hope, were finally interred with a greatest hits album. The kids who listened to the Sex Pistols and the Clash in '77 are now pushing...
...schlock. It's also mean-spirited and cynical," sniffs academic dean Wayne Morris. "Art attempts to address the human condition," says visiting faculty member Moe Brooker, "and you don't trivialize the human spirit." Nor do you feature "a sideshow" in the window, says student Pam Feldman, when you are collecting $15,500 in tuition from someone who invests "all my time and energy to become a better painter...
...that lays a foundation for his own entertainment empire. Diller, 55, will pay Seagram $1.2 billion in cash plus HSN stock for Seagram's USA and Sci-Fi cable channels and most of its Universal TV operations. Among them: the acclaimed cops-and-lawyers show Law and Order and schlock hit Xena: Warrior Princess...