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DIED. Oqirhuyakt, 84, former Mongolian warlord and last lineal descendant of Genghis Khan, the 13th century Mongol military genius whose horse-borne hordes conquered China and menaced all of Central Asia; of cancer; in Huhehot, Inner Mongolia. Because of his hereditary status, his large following and his cooperation with the new regime in Peking after 1949, Oqirhuyakt (the single-name form is common for Mongolians) became a regional official. The ashes of Genghis' 32nd-generation descendant will rest in the tomb of his illustrious ancestors on the Ordos Plateau...
HUSKER DU proudly announces on the inner sleeve of its new double album, Zen Arcade, that "the whole thing took about 85 hours." What's more, all but two of the songs here were recorded first-take, and the album's new owner can hope for only the worst from this Minneapolis group: muddy sound quality, sloppy playing, missed cues, lots of feedback...
...modern world, as seen through the eyes of a twenty-year-old, out-of-work punk? Is it that life is not worth living? Or that life can't be lived--that events are beyond our control? Clearly, this movie's makers wanted to let us in on some Inner Message, but the connection between the weirdness on screen and this message is never made clear. The opaqueness of Nesmith's vision in the end makes Repo Man--well...dell, with only a very cool hardcore soundtrack to sustain it. Mad Max--where are you when we need...
...Watergate he has met more dignitaries than most people care even to hear about. He capitalizes on this background, going out to his way to avoid writing the type of book you would expect from the former managing editor of the Times. He writes not of the inner-workings of the great crises he covered, nor of the interior powerplays of the Times wich he evidently feels have been overcovered...
...emotional continent." Blades' songs, featuring characters as diverse as political policemen, murdered priests and pregnant teenagers, explore exotic territory that is made immediate and familiar by his graceful narrative gifts and by the fleet, conversational translations of the lyrics that he provides on the album's inner cover ("Where do people who disappear go to? Look in the water and in the high grass . . . When do they return? Every time our thoughts bring them back...