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The makers of the new pop do not ignore this rage. They embrace, exploit and transform it. As the California rap group N.W.A. announces at the start of its album Straight Outta Compton: "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge." What they know from the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

In the wonderfully gross, fiercely moralistic movie Heathers, a nasty teen queen is asked, "Why are you such a megabitch?" Her answer: "Because I can be." Because of freedom of expression, comics and musicians can now be as nasty as they wanna be. And nasty is the word. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

The challenge of remaking Peru has taken a toll on Vargas Llosa's writing. Aside from a brief erotic novel, In Praise of My Stepmother (1989), a book that Vargas Llosa considers a "diversion" and in which he devotes rapturous pages to the joys of a woman's bottom, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Vargas: Politics Is Now His Muse | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

There are plenty of reasons to stage a major Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' most erotic, bedroom-centered play -- the power and vinegar of its language, the timelessness of its obsession with money, the candor and subtlety of its homosexual subtheme -- but only one reason why it actually happened. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Just What the Doctor Ordered | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

In Mountains of the Moon, John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) is just a few days out on his first trek into the wilderness when he gets a spear through his cheek, and a messy, bloody business it is. Before the movie ends, his partner, the celebrated Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Grand, Ferocious Folly | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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