Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between sessions, many of the veteran "seminarians" reminisce about the bad old days, when encounter groupies were encouraged to roll around like snowballs or get out their feelings at the salad bar. Those were the days that fixed Esalen's image in the collective unconscious as a sort of spiritual singles bar, Californication Central. "When I tell my friends at home I'm coming to Esalen," says a Manhattan screenwriter, "they just roll their eyes and say, 'Oh yeah! The place where all the girls run around naked!' And when I say, 'Look, I'm going to hear...
...plants are humming along at more than 100% of normal capacity. Facing such rosy prospects, Stanley Surma, Ford's director of labor relations, vowed that the firm would "come out with a job-security plan that addresses the concerns of the employees." The term strike, he added, was a "bad word...
There is just no getting away from Bad. Even before its official release date on Aug. 31, there were plentiful rumors and heavyweight expectations about Michael Jackson's first solo record in five years. Among other things, the new album had to meet and match his 1982 Thriller, which sold an unprecedented 38.5 million copies around the world and made him into a pop-culture phenomenon, part dancing phantom and part homeboy Kewpie. Bad's first single, a bonbon called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was a perfect love ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate...
...Bad, which contains nine other tunes besides I Just Can't Stop Loving You (or ten, counting a bonus tune on the CD), further compounds the confusion. Like some fine-tuned racing car, it kicks up a lot of its own dust. The album's first video, a stinging 16-minute dramatic vamp on the title tune directed by Martin Scorsese, premiered in prime time on CBS last week and grabbed a 30 share. Set in a New York City subway station, it was in part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter...
...initially, anyhow. The record business is primed for another monster hit. The great pop-culture dream machine needs the kind of lube job only an icon like Jackson can deliver. With advance orders of 2 million, there will be a lot of Bad around, and it is useless to resist...