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...both the Soviets and the Americans, a permanent space station could provide innumerable benefits. Everything from zero-g manufacturing of near perfect crystals for electronics to routine expeditions to the moon and the other planets could move from the realm of expensive experiment into everyday reality...
...editors, with the help of Design Consultant Tom Bentkowski, made format changes to handle the issue's unusual demands. Added to the magazine's regular departments were five new sections: History, Culture, Psychology, Language and Travel, the latter written especially for TIME by William Least Heat Moon, author of the bestselling U.S. travelogue Blue Highways. A New York City printing firm provided the characters symbolizing each of TIME'S sections (the kanji above: Japan...
...common fantasy of Westerners that there was once an Old Japan (samurais, geishas, moon watching from the tatami) that was destroyed after 1945 by the trauma of Westernization, so that the New Japan ceased in some basic way to be Japanese. Nothing could be further from the truth. What the Japanese do, and always have done, is much more subtle. They adapt what they need from other cultures. They seem always to be submitting-sometimes masochistically-to cultural colonizations, of which the American is only the most recent. But what they make of the acquired form is invariably Japanese...
William Least Heat Moon is the author of Blue Highways (Atlantic-Little, Brown), a presentation of a journey on the back roads of America. TIME asked him to describe a brief journey to the back country of Japan...
...rape theme lurking just beneath--what is all this? Frederick Barthelme is known as neither an ogre nor a psychotic, but a well-respected and well-connected fiction artist, his stories popular for their sharpness of scene and characterization, their control over accurate, endearing detail. The stories in Moon Deluxe are classic vignetes of Americana; shopping centers and brand names abound, dialogue is rendered with a perfect...