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While Nash has mastered the cinema verite of violence--kids being torn into by pit bulls, head-to-head collisions of tractor trailers, elephant-on-elephant violence--Nelson's company, Termite Art Productions, has focused on grossing people out (though it also makes programs for PBS). His Busted on the Job specials highlight food employees hocking loogies into tacos and an uber-Dilbertian secretary defecating on her boss's chair. Nelson's new Busted Everywhere for Fox is more of the same. He doesn't go along with Nash's excuses about storytelling or moralizing. "We thought it was funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...union's coffers and limited its influence. To undo those shackles, says Barnes "Hoffa will have to come to Washington with all his guns blazing." But with little money to maneuver past these obstacles, Hoffa is likely to find himself in the difficult position of driving a creaky tractor-trailer along the edge of a precipice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoffa Faces a Bumpy Road | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...average price over the previous 12 months. Note: that's not from their high point, but from their average price, a proxy for the price most people paid for the stock over that period. On the list are plenty of big, widely held companies, including oil-services giant Halliburton, tractor company Deere, Northwest Airlines and food-and-tobacco conglomerate RJR Nabisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating The Rush | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

County fairs featuring tractor pulls, livestock shows and country western music. An agriculture report on the afternoon news. Packed town hall meetings to discuss the local high school cheerleading squad. Minor league baseball, frequent pledges of allegiance and lots of singing of the national anthem. Soccer tournaments, Girl Scout cookies, barbecues and Bible study classes...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Sex in the Heartland | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...steel-and-Plexiglas modular stage that resembles those used by touring rock bands. The main playing area is flanked by twin lighting towers and live-action video screens, and three additional upstage screens are used for scenic projections. The entire package can be loaded into six tractor trailers, and a state-of-the-art sound system facilitates performances in large outdoor amphitheaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carmen, the MTV Diva | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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