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Which adds mortal irony to his recent return to the music industry with a big bam boom. Last year's album, New Sensations, captured a series of everyday experiences that Reed could describe with virginal excitement because they weren't drug-influenced. It was, to say the least, an upbeat album even if it lacked anything like a raw edge. And it gave us the first Lou Reed video, "I Love You, Suzanne," a video which combined staccato sensuality with a simple-minded song to terrific results. The album even included a reworking of an old Reed tune, "Fly Into...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Sole Rock N Roll Survivor | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

...Mohawk sails through Mass. Ave. traffic on a skateboard. His T-shirt reads "Arm the Poor," and Paul Weller comes calling from the belly of a boom...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: What's a Punk? | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

During the past few years, as TIME has presented cover stories on the running boom, stress, cholesterol and the changing images of beauty, it has become apparent that Americans have developed a new awareness about the way they look and feel. Responding to that interest, the magazine this week inaugurates a new section, called Health & Fitness, with an evaluation of how well Americans shape up, along with the latest news about nutrients. Says Managing Editor Ray Cave: "A major change in modern life has been the increasing understanding of the benefits of fitness and preventive medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 7, 1985 | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

Wishful thinking is partly to blame for Big Steel's hard times. In the mid-'70s, when mills were running at full capacity and it seemed the boom would never end, industry executives predicted that they would need 185 million tons of raw-steel capacity by 1983. In order to buy industrial peace, management agreed to extravagant labor contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Industries That Want Help | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...silver tray nestled in sediment. Bottles of vintage Bordeaux wine scattered on the ocean floor. A gaping hole where once a giant smokestack had stood. The ship's bridge, damaged by a falling boom. These and other poignant images of disaster, all in Picasso blue, were distributed in Washington last week at a news conference held by Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, leader of the expedition that early this month located and photographed the sunken liner Titanic. They were only a few of the 12,000 photos shot at the bottom of the Atlantic by the unmanned submersibles Argo and Angus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Haunting Images of Disaster | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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