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...patronage, de Renzy shoots a new 90-minute picture every month or so, and his cinematic technique is improving with practice. At first his stars were prostitutes, but he now casts only amateurs, generally hippies; he gets them for $50 a picture through an ad in the underground Berkeley Barb...
...have children and heroin come together now in this deadly combination? According to Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, who has treated young addicts in San Francisco and writes a popular "Dr. HIPpocrates" column in the Berkeley Barb, explains: "There is a growing use of heroin among young people because young people tend to value the respect of their peers above everything else. Taking the most dangerous drug you can find is -a way of gaining that respect. It's a kind of machismo thing...
...habits do not vanish overnight, however, and discipline is still next to godliness in the eyes of many Germans. According to one well-known barb, Germans obey the law because it's against the law not to do so. Yet there are signs that even in Germany, discipline is giving way to what Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf, who also happens to be the Free Democrats' leading thinker, calls "the individual search for happiness by people freed of the fetters of tradition and thrown into the affluent society." Writes Dahrendorf in Society and Democracy in Germany...
...from Slavery. The result was a list of wage demands. Max consented, but in a Steppenwolf mood decided to sell the paper. Enter Timothy Leary and a rich friend who came to town to talk about buying the Barb for $250,000 and turning it into a psychedelic-trip sheet for the acidhead community. Oh, no!, exclaimed the tribe, which wanted to make the paper into a kind of revolutionary New York Times. Leary and friend then became "honest brokers," suggesting that Max sell the paper to the tribe- for $1,000 a week for 140 weeks, plus interest...
...deals are off and the tribe is preparing a Barb on Strike edition of the paper and thinking about starting their own weekly, called, naturally, Tribe. Max is trying to put out an edition of Barb on his own, which is about as likely as levitating the Pentagon with chants...