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NIETZSCHE wrote that "the secret or reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" Heavy metal certainly epitomizes his ideal. I consider metal to be the rock 'n roll of the '80s, and hopefully it will be a dominant musical force well into...
...circuit and cable TV, where their material is available to children. One way to get attention, to appear hip, to make a provocative point or just to give a joke some taboo oomph, is to talk dirty. Plenty of comics don't; the most popular TV comedian of the '80s is clean (and funny) Jay Leno. But plenty do. Just watch them on HBO or Showtime. Sam Kinison, a kind of defrocked evangelist of red-neck rage (and also, in spurts, funny), provoked the condemnation of gay spokesmen with his jokes about AIDS. On his new album, Leader...
WHEELS. Modern fibers are also making a difference in bicycle wheels, which traditionally feature dozens of thin metal spokes within a pliable rim. While multispoked wheels minimize wind resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with...
...regular basis (usually bimonthly or quarterly) and are sold by subscription as well as individually (average cost: about $20 an issue). The genre was launched in 1981 with Videofashion Monthly, a slick roundup of fashion news, and a handful of other video magazines came and went during the '80s. Now the proliferation of VCRs (in nearly 70% of U.S. homes today), and the growing number of people who are buying and not just renting tapes, have inspired a host of entrepreneurs to give the infant field another...
Darman, who coined the Kennedy School motto "Excellence in Government" as a lecturer at the institution during the early '80s, spoke of the need for Americans to recapture the romantic spirit that characterized the nation in better times. He defined romanticism as "a love of freedom, respect for individual rights... hope, optimism, a confident faith in the future...