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...MALCOLM MCLAREN: FANS (Island). The man who launched the Sex Pistols takes a shot at opera. Surprise: it's lyrical and funny...
Procrustes, a character in Greek mythology, stretched or lopped the limbs off unsuspecting wayfarers to make them fit the bed in his lair. Texas Businessman Charles McLaren, 40, has an only slightly less ingenious plan for solving housing problems. His proposal: the sleeping module, or MAC1 (for mini-accommodation center), a 4-ft. by 4-ft. by 8-ft. plastic capsule fitted out like a miniature hotel room...
...made of plastic lined with fire-resistant foam, costs $2,500 and comes with a twin-size foam mattress, overhead light and climate-control unit. More lavishly equipped versions, costing up to $3,900 each, feature color TV, radio, telephone, tape deck and hot-drink dispenser. Despite design improvements, McLaren concedes, it may be some time before Americans awaken to the benefits of capsule accommodation. So he plans to cater to a captive market: overcrowded prisons, where a rapid expansion of facilities has been ordered by the courts. MAC1 systems, claims McLaren, will cost about $8,500 an inmate, compared...
...McLaren also has hopes of selling MACs to government agencies, where potential applications include military field camps, ship and submarine bunks, disaster relief shelters and space stations...
...Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock (Island). The year's funniest and most slaphappy dance record mixes Zulu chants, New York City jump-rope songs and hip-hop street culture into an anthropological jamboree...