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...also probably unlucky) to call Generation X the peace generation, but the evidence is mounting. No generation in American history has had less traffic with war or its brutally congruent demands for sacrifice and faith. And because we haven't had to fight, we've been free from the conformist pressures of a nation at war. We've found our own, unique identity as a generation that thinks and does as it pleases. The peace dividend has allowed us to live abroad more often and for longer than any other generation. Technoliths like Microsoft and Nike are earning their spectacular...
...quintessential beatnik poet; of a heart attack brought on by chronic liver disease; in New York City. Forming the trinity of the 1950s Beat Generation along with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg first raged into public view in 1956 with Howl, a profane tirade that railed against a conformist society and dealt, rather graphically, with his homosexuality. In the '60s and '70s, he was active in both the hippie and antiwar movements. His poetry prefigured punk and New Age, encompassing protest and psychedelics, drawing inspiration from yoga, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, the Torah and fellow poets like William Carlos...
...They're all conformist," Mansfield says. "They don't have any critics [of feminism] within the department, and they never invite any. They have nightmares about Camille Paglia...
...model-actress who first came to the world's attention wearing a silver bra in an unseemly Aerosmith video featuring her father, the band's lead singer Steven Tyler. Because Liv grew up obsessed with movies like Night of the Living Dead rather than movies like The Conformist, working with heavyweight directors has been admittedly scary. "There was all this internal fear," she reflects...
Could any young actress not wilt in this adoring, predatory glare? All right, Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday--but that film had an old-Hollywood glow, and Hepburn was unique. The two Tyler movies are anemic, anomic art-house fodder. One comes from the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor; the other from the guy who is about to make CopLand, the film Sly Stallone hopes will turn him into a certified Actor...