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...essence of tubular technology, the Risky Business plot/phallic line is simple enough: parents vacate, boy stays home, boy meets prostitute, boy and prostitute open brothel in the folk's house, boy loses girl, boy loses furniture (prostitute played by daughter of noted conservative TV talkshow host). It's yer basic bare bones plot. While Joel calls himself a businessman, he's really just the businessman's Girl Friday, and the businessman's the girl in the world's oldest profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frantically Seeking Desperation | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Suddenly he seems to be everywhere-briefing candidates, wooing the press, and greeting voters with a cheery "G'day. How yer goin'?" Seizing the offensive on the campaign trail, Bob Hawke, 53, is not about to waste a long-awaited opportunity enhanced by some providential timing. On the same day that the way was cleared for Hawke to assume leadership of Australia's Labor Party, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser unexpectedly scheduled general elections for March 5. In the space of barely a month, the charismatic and impatient Hawke could thus be catapulted from party expert on industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Preying Hawke | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...Future and contributor of two of the twelve essays in this volume, warns that a devastating energy crisis could erupt at any time. He writes: "That, in a nub, is the problem for the United States and the entire industrial world, and is why we have undertaken this study." Yer gin fears that the current small glut in perils supplies will lull industrialized countries into the type of complacency that leads U.S. auto buyers to want to rush back to big cars as soon as gas prices seem to abate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Stuck over a Barrel | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...industrial world. The authors are hopeful that countries will continue cutting back. "This is an optimistic work,"they write, "for our conclusion is that a reasonable adjustment, while not foreordained by any means, is certainly possible." In the race between crisis and a solution to global energy problems, Yer gin and the other authors are betting on adjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Stuck over a Barrel | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...Florida boy name of Burt Reynolds and that lil ole big ole gal from Tennessee Dolly Parton. Leastways that's how they tell it. I figger it another way: If you plan to go to Hollywood you better be ready to Go Hollywood. But you decide for yer own self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whorehouse goes Hollywood | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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