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Back in the late 1960s, when Yves Saint Laurent was shaking up the stuffy Parisian couture world with his radical street-inspired looks (think motorcycle jackets, pea coats and beatnik sweaters), the idea of wearing a safari shirt laced up the front yet open to the navel was considered completely cutting edge...
DIED. BRUCE PALMER, 58, hard-driving bass guitarist in the short-lived folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield, whose 1967 hit For What It's Worth became emblematic of the 1960s West Coast sound; of a heart attack; in Belleville...
...long-deferred masterpiece, intended to top the sublime Pet Sounds and to render the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper obsolete before it hit the shelves. This album’s failure to appear reflects almost too perfectly the abortive and tragically naïve vision of 1960s drug culture and makes it the saddest and most romantic all-time drug album...
...term used so often to praise Naipaul's journalism is that it is "prophetic"?that he saw in the 1960s and '70s, before anyone else did, that a series of crises was about to hit Africa and India; then in the 1980s and '90s he saw that trouble was brewing in the Islamic world. Naipaul's journalism of crisis was engaged most profoundly with India. On his first visit there, in 1962, Naipaul found the country "an endless repetition of exhaustion and decay." When he came back to India in 1967, he wrote: "The absurdity of India can be total...
...special The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was a Mick Jagger-- helmed vanity project that somehow went horribly right. The chaotic show--a hybrid of circus and rock concert with some of the hottest acts in swinging London (John Lennon, the Who)--was shelved in the 1960s and not released on video until 1996. The new DVD adds commentary from Jagger, Yoko Ono and others. Keith Richards mumbles the best line: "I remember not remembering everything towards the end." But watching a young Jagger lead the Stones through sublimely insolent versions of You Can't Always Get What...