Word: altamont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignored or largely uninvestigated fact. Only now are we beginning to realize that hip college students and intellectuals are not the only drop-outs and trip-takers. Only now do we begin to realize fully the alternatives that John Lennon and Mick Jagger, peaceful Woodstock and murderous Altamont, Christ and Satan represent in terms of the counter culture. Only now is it becoming obvious that the underside of our culture is grist for the mill of the increasingly homicide-oriented national culture...
...currently under secret investigation by a House committee), raises more questions than it answers. More persuasively, a Viet Nam veteran recounts several killings that grimly resemble My Lai. Brutality of another kind is the subject of a strong article on the "Woodstock West" folk concert held last December at Altamont race track in California. Why, Scanlan's wonders, was there not more attention paid to the fact that four people died, 700 were treated for bad acid trips, and that the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, hired by the Rolling Stones rock group for "security," rampaged with pool...
...unclear. though a case could be made that it results from the personal antagonism of two different lifestyles, as I think Levy would argue; in any case it's strangely believable-we've seen men dying in cancer commercials, we await the Maysles brothers record of the murder at Altamont, and the theatre needs murder or real copulation to keep us interested, so it's all of a piece somehow. Max's suicide is quickly out of his control; in one of the film's best scenes Farson and an underling explain why the next Monday has been chosen (". . .everybody...