Word: biked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bike culture burgeoned, the Angels' legend became as grimy as their beards, Levi's and leather vests. In 1965 they tore up an Oakland peace rally. Four years later came Altamont. Commissioned to protect Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones at a rock concert held at the California speedway, the Angels waded into the crowd with pool cues, leaving an 18-year-old black, Meredith Hunter, dead in their wake. (The Angel who killed him was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.) It all bolstered the legend that the Angels were the toughest, meanest cyclists around...
...then, there is the case of another filmmaker, a generally unknown AIP director by the name of Larry Buchanan. Mostly Buchanan's directed bike pictures-thinks called Hell-Raiders -and crime stories-like A Bullet for Pretty Boy. But after a long lunch, he will take you back to his office-cutting room and ask your opinion of his dream project, a film tentatively called The Rebel Jesus...
...Thanks for returning the biker [Feb. 8] and his bike from the fantasies of being a neurotic, erotic, psychotic and of course quixotic animal to the simple road of reality on which he usually rides...
...Your Essay really turned me off on motorcycles. The truth is that motorcycles are horrendously loud and that most of the big-bike owners I know think this is a symbol of their masculinity...
...face the world without excessive self-consciousness. An asthmatic child whose parents had once been afraid to let him exercise developed enough self-assurance to control his asthma attacks without medicine, and a chronic bedwetter learned to keep dry. Among adults, a professor was taught to ride a bike so that he could go out with his son, and a frail teacher, taunted by students in his rough high school, learned self-defense. So far, Mike has worked with neurotics. But he is becoming interested in Boston State Hospital and its psychotics. These patients, explains Psychiatric Resident George Sigel...