Word: aquarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine old decade are so heavy, they lack the old ring of verismo. But this bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be, well, different, you know, together. Milos Forman, the Czech-born director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), trying to turn the Aquarian Age stage hit Hair into a movie, needs an authentic circa 1968 "bein" as backdrop for crucial scenes. Those affairs having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, he has to wing it. So Forman's munchkins hire six rock bands, reserve the twelve-acre Sheep Meadow...
NEVERTHELESS, the portrait is only too true. Despite his sometimes sentimental attitude towards the Aquarian paradise and his simplistic account of its corruption by the media, Richmond has drawn a life-sized and realistic picture: His protagonists are not "hippies." They are individuals, children of the bourgeoisie, living entirely for the very stoned present. Young, confused, vulnerable, and tragically in love with the idea of a spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture...
...Miami Beach last week, there was a curious little drama that lent color to the theory. Although the residents there were initially horrified by the prospect of an Aquarian invasion, they have got to know one another, with the result that about 50 senior citizens joined the Yippies in a march from the Convention Center, and another 16 gave the Yips a key to the city. This week Guru Allen Ginsberg was to perform a mammoth marriage ceremony symbolizing the union of the young and old. Said Yippie Allen Katzman: "Many of these senior citizens are really hip. They...
...late 1960s, mostly middle-class kids trying to create a gaudy secular religion, have given way to a desperate culture of emotionally troubled rejects, largely from working-class and even ghetto families. Amphetamines, heroin and old-fashioned alcohol have generally replaced pot and LSD; violence has supplanted Aquarian love. Now the area is open to the professional pimp, who uses a combination of terrorism, drugs and ersatz affection to lure confused teen-age girls into prostitution. The teeny-hookers have created a glut on the market, sneers a tough old pro of 20. "They want to set the world...
...sunbathing in Tenerife is more -fun" -or the mildest winter in memory, central heating, and the popularity of dieting. Marlene Kriiger, probably West Germany's best-known astrologer, suggests that Fasching's decline was caused by "the interaction of Uranus with the Jupiter-Pluto square in the Aquarian age." Dr. Emil Vierlinger, a locally famed master of Fasching ceremonies, suggested that the generation gap might be the reason: "Today's young people celebrate Fasching all year long. Any mod store sells more .fantastic clothing, and they can dance more wildly and to louder music in any discotheque...