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...first, parents reviled The Beatles for their monstrously long hair and their raucous music. "The British Invasion," costumed in Carnaby Street rags, was undermining the taste and morals of their children. But The Beatles weren't a passing fancy that would go away. As new groups tried to sell acid rock and noise, The Beatles became, well, acceptable. "They weren't greasy like the motorcycle bunch of the '50 s," says one fan, "and they weren't slick like Bowie or Alice Cooper are now. The Beatles were nice--you could've brought one home to your parents." Today, orchestrations...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: Nostalgia for the Pepsi Generation | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

...that the "secret inner pressure about monogamy" was too great for him to bear, and he ambled off into a series of casual affairs. He and Sandra separated while he was writing the script for an LSD epic called The Trip-under medical supervision, Sandra once had a bad acid experience and was spooked by the subject-and when Nicholson finished the assignment, they decided to split up for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...front rows of the Senate. Paddy Chayefsky came closest to the true life-style in Marty, when he portrayed the endless ennui of Saturday night: "So whadda ya figure on doin', Angie?" Small wonder that the '50s were the predecessor of protest, pornography, youthquakes, violence, acid rock and political upheaval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Back to the Unfabulous '50s | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...Their performances were fueled by dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them a primal force in popular music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Return of a Supergroup | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...real origin of this concern was the discovery in 1953 at Cambridge University by Watson and Dr. Francis Crick that the pattern of all life forms is determined by a double-helical molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Since then other investigators have found ways of cutting a long nucleic-acid molecule, by chemical means, into shorter pieces that can then be recombined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Andromeda Fear | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

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