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...cartridge unit is a sort of video phonograph that converts any TV set into a home movie projector and screen. The variety of available programs should be almost endless: Olivier's Hamlet, all kinds of other films (including instant home movies), Broadway musicals, or how-to series by Arnold Palmer or Julia Child. Owners will be able to play the cartridges at any hour of the day or night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby...
...grass in the old unwary Leary style. They state categorically, for instance, that "there is no such thing as a profound revelation while stoned." The book is not intended as a polemic; it is merely a report that, in addition to discussing the subjective feelings of being high, includes such how-to items as rolling a marijuana cigarette, cleaning an ounce of the stems and seeds, and making a buy safely...
...Formula. Along with a younger rival called the St. Pauli Zeitung (circ. 535,000), the Nachrichten carries the sort of news and pictures that no other paper sees fit to print. As basic how-to (and how-much) sheets, the papers are vital to Reeperbahn newcomers who do not know the cost of a "car-strip" girl ($4 to $6) or an all-nighter ($40). Outside of Hamburg's St. Pauli area, where their success lies, the papers have sought to establish themselves as national arbiters of porn. The Nachrichten runs regular reviews of erotic art shows, sex books...
...Yourself Utopia, Want a computer? The catalogue offers a choice: a spiffy, $4,900 Hewlett-Packard tabletop model with a 19-register magnetic core memory-or a $1.95 book of instructions on how to build one yourself. Want to start a commune? The Whole Earth Catalog lists how-to books on primitive house building (adobe huts, log cabins, teepees, metal domes constructed from jettisoned auto bodies), organic farming, sewage disposal, practical sociology. It also reprints a letter from a disillusioned former commune member who writes: "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian...
...consuming process, even though many swiftly prove 1) badly written, 2) wretchedly edited, and 3) largely unnecessary. In this issue, instead of choosing, we attempt to give the reader a sampling of the American literary overflow by presenting thumbnail reviews of one whole week of books (excepting a handful, mostly how-to guides and Christmas specials) to be published between...