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More often the writing is simply sloppy. Sentences are short and clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Detroit's labor force abetted the industry's slide into decline. Work was often sloppy. Cars built on

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Uphill Battle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Reviewing Kael's latest book of movie reviews, When the Lights Go Down (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $18.95), in the Aug. 14 New York Review of Books, Adler not only calls the volume "worthless," she proceeds to incinerate Kael on the gravest imaginable grounds for a New Yorker writer: vulgarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Ouch Ouch) | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Director Alan Rudolph, whose Welcome to L.A. examined the West Coast music scene from a perspective so distant it seemed almost Martian, has fashioned Roadie into a kind of live-action Road Runner cartoon and added the exuberant bad taste of Russ Meyer's redneck sex movies. Roadie has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Great Rock-'n'-Roll Caravan | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

The setting for the initiative could hardly have been more dismal. Some 7% of the plant's workers were regularly failing to appear for work, and the number of outstanding employee grievances against management totaled 2,000. The result of the confrontation and conflict was sloppy work, rapidly rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stunning Turnaround at Tarrytown | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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