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Rock was, of course, the leading art form, andone that took a quantum leap with the Sgt. Pepperalbum. Critics and bull sessions passionatelydissected that album, and succeeding ones by theBeatles, the Stones, The Doors...
Would it not have been fun to have spent asummer in Hawaii with my roommates? To havepersuaded Professor Riesman to supervise mythesis? To have enjoyed three years, not one anda fraction, of Crimson editing? To have had moretime for bull sessions...
Moreland's roommate of several weeks, Sidney Gibson, quietly fries hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California...
...hear. May came and went, but I didn't hear from the people in Switzerland. And so I found myself home in Oxnard, California--Strawberry and Lima Bean Capital of the World, summer training home of the L.A. Raiders and probably the only place in the universe named after bull testicles--with no job and no pecuniary prospects for the summer. Fate, in the guise of Scott, my best friend from high school, soon took care of my woes and secured me a position at the movie theater where he was employed. I began to think that perhaps kismet...
...literature. On either count a fair judgment would be favorable, though mixed. Sunshine and clouds. As in much of Mailer's work, moments of real inspiration and breathtaking shrewdness have been crowded into the same packing case with filler and plodding and, now and then, the sheer bull of a transcendent blowhard...