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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seriously, folks. An Alaska king crab just turned up in the Hudson River. Ever since the oil spill, they've been getting great mileage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late-Night Style Talk-show hosts are looking to the headlines for laughs | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...politician's probably finished," says Torie Clarke, press secretary to Republican Senator John McCain and a well-known Washington joke broker. The onslaught of one-liners about John Tower's reported drinking and womanizing helped scuttle his nomination for Secretary of Defense. Relentless gags about the Exxon oil spill undoubtedly aggravated the company's public relations disaster and spurred pressure for White House action. Deposed Speaker Jim Wright was tougher to lampoon -- the charges against him involved abstruse House rules rather than booze and women -- but that didn't stop the monologuists from trying. (Carson on Wright's negotiations with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late-Night Style Talk-show hosts are looking to the headlines for laughs | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Hollywood's zeal mirrors an explosion in environmental activism throughout the world. Stories about the burning rain forest, global warming and the Exxon Valdez spill have left people feeling a loss of ecological innocence. "It's an issue you can't escape -- even if you live in Beverly Hills," says Josh Baran, a Los Angeles public relations consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Greening of Hollywood | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

What does America think of Jim Wright? Dan Quayle? The Exxon oil spill? Find out by turning to the comedy monologues of Carson, Leno, Letterman and Sajak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 133 No. 24 JUNE 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...education President," yet his current budget, in fact, calls for a reduction in education spending. In a similar vein, Bush has repeatedly proclaimed a greater sensitivity to the needs of our environment than his predecessor held, but still showed remarkable passivity in the face of the Alaskan oil spill, seeming reluctant to confront one of the nation's major oil companies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calm Amidst A Storm | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

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