Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worst of all, Julius' "voyage of discovery" is tortuously boring. Where Dorothy meets sympathetic souls on her way to Oz and shares adventures with them, Julius just keeps bumping into rock stars who stay on screen long enough to do quick, generally wooden cameos. Thus Julius meets Tom Waits, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother, for about five minutes, or long enough to get ripped off by him. Then Julius meets Dr. John, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother-in-law, for another five minutes and is again ripped off. Leon Redbone gets about six minutes as a silent Canadian...
...than 1,000 journalists flocked to Iowa to cover last week's caucuses. But when the nation's television viewers sat back to watch the results, they found themselves, as usual, in the company of an elite few. Flipping through the channels, one could find Dan interviewing Bob Dole, Tom tangling with Pat Robertson, Peter and David congratulating Democratic Victor Dick Gephardt, and Bernie earnestly questioning Mike Dukakis...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, Tom Callahan, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
...Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Tam Martinides Gray, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn...
Conroy systematically exposes rotting southern ideals and prejudices through Lowenstein's continuous probing. Slowly the mask is unpeeled. But The Prince of Tides is not a celebration of the ethos of New York City. For in the end, Tom returns to the South, this time content with himself, and conscious of the "demonology" of his youth. While by no means an autobiographical work, one gets the sense that Conroy is exploring his own relationship with the South. It is our good fortune that he has chosen...