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...costumes are not Elizabethan, but rather more like Adams House, circa 1986. It is perhaps for this reason that such things as the playing of "Freak Out" over a ghetto blaster at the Capulet's party doesn't seem incongruous...

Author: By Michael R. Mcadoo, | Title: A New Old Love | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...main problem with this film is that it peaks early. Max becomes the deciding piece in a bizarre power struggle between Auntie, who controls the surface of Bartertown, and Master Blaster, a two person unit that controls the energy supply of the city below ground. This confrontation is resolved early on in a fight to the death in an arena called Thunderdome. The rest of the film is hence "Beyond Thunderdome...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Beyond Cult Films | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors and flags; and Ghetto Blaster by Scott Prescott, an Impala converted into a menacing gray tank. French Sculptor Arman has a towering indictment: his Long Term Parking piles 60 cars on top of one another and embeds them in concrete (MOCA shows a model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...think your readers might want to know that the educational software product listed in your Best Sellers chart is called Math Blaster!, not, as you had it Math Buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1984 | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Among the most prominent is Bill Budge, 28, who has written two of the industry's biggest entertainment hits: Raster Blaster, a computerized pinball game, and Pinball Construction Set, a program that allows players to custom-build their own video pinball machine. He earned $500,000 in 1982 and resides in a $240,000 eight-room house with a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay. Budge, though, does not spend his day admiring the scenery. Most of the time he is down in the yellow-walled basement, swigging cans of Coke while hunched over a computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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