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...growing up so fast, my boy?" the banjo-plucking Young asks, an appropriate enough question in an age when Ringo Starr is enjoying his new status as a grandfather. The album's final two cuts, "Bound for Glory" and the wailer "Where Is the Highway Tonight?" are classic Nashville shlock...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Neil Young Goes Twang | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

Townshend also frames a story called "Pancho and the Baron" with a similar kind of dull shlock. This is pretty mean of ol' Pete, since he knows that all his readers really want is juicy anecdotes about...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Townshend's Horse Fetish | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

Your hostess on tonight's cruise Anita Mann (Robert Sagar Coburn). Entertainment on the Lido Deck, from the bountiful Miles Long (Leonard Dick), who offers up vintage shlock along the lines of "It's love, bigger than a breadbox. It's love, trendier than dredlocks." Cabin assistants include Eileen Dover (Zak Klobucher), Sharon Sharalike (Mark Meredith). Auntie Histamine (Michael Golder) and Alice Fairinlove (Steve Lyne...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Taking in a Show--Or Two | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...Return of the Black Stallion Meets Chariots of Fire. You know, for the beach scene. Although Albrecht shows that his tongue is in cheek when he ends a set of mystical pseudo-poetry with the kicker, "Why don't you piss off," he is not quite as immune from shlock as he would have us believe...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Hype or Substance? | 8/5/1983 | See Source »

...this one was much more substantial. Not just another piece of compressed, prefabricated shlock--this song was there and really meant something. It was a political statement that asked people to stand up and vote with their feet. You caught the infectiousness of the 52's "Rock Lobster" and moved in ways you never dreamed of You did the Shy Tuna, the Camel Walk, the Shu-ga-loo and many more inane dances...

Author: By Michael J. Abrameichz, | Title: Bombs Away | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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