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...contains a special section on pregnant brides ("It should be remembered that this is a happy occasion . . ."). More explicit among the recent manuals are SexEtiquette, by Marilyn Hamel ("Should I? Can I? May I? Must I?"), and Sex Tips for Girls, by Cynthia Heimel ("Including important advice on 'Zen and the Art of Diaphragm Insertion' "). On a more humdrum front, Baldrige is now writing a compendium on how to behave at work, while George Mazzei has published The New Office Etiquette: A Guide to Getting Along in the Corporate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...years the writer-director has been devising scenarios of mastodon machismo (Jeremiah Johnson, Magnum Force, Big Wednesday, Apocalypse Now) in which Real Men-guys so tough you could ice-skate on them-attain a state of Zen purity through self-denial, cunning and random slaughter. But these films were like peace pamphlets compared with his latest crimson vision. In Red Dawn he and Co-Author Kevin Reynolds suggest that the U.S. is susceptible to military takeover by parachuting Communist troops; that the Soviets would establish "reeducation camps" in Colorado and show Ivan the Terrible at the local moviehouse; and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gams and Guns of August | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Revitalized Psychedelia | 7/27/1984 | See Source »

...gets all this, but he also gets something else--one of the most pleasant surprises of the season. Unlike the current generation of hardcore records--including Husker Du's own, Land Speed Records--Zen Arcade successfully captures the spontaneity and the furious inspiration of an unpolished live recording, without becoming too bogged down by technical deficiencies...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Revitalized Psychedelia | 7/27/1984 | See Source »

...Zen Monk Dogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: No News Is Bad News | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

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