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...them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse in movies; but if Trigger had been loaded with the sado-erotic symbolism that now, after dozens of exploitation flicks about Hell's Angels, clings to any Harley chopper, the poor nag could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: MYTH OF THE MOTORCYCLE HOG | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Shorts? Absolutely. And not just the ordinary old ho-hum sportswear type, but a brand-new outrageous variety, cut higher, tighter and altogether skimpier than anything Ruby Keeler ever kicked in (see THE THEATER). No longer fashioned of sturdy standards like denim and broadcloth, the current crop is made of flashier stuff-mink and monkey fur, silk and satin, calfskin, chiffon and cut velvet. The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke. But short shorts are no joke; they are serious business, and women in major European and U.S. cities are currently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Hot Pants: Legs Are Back | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...people of the State of California must dispose, legally, of the murder of Actress Sharon Tate and six other people on two successive nights last August-murders in which the killers and the killed were unknown to each other. Last week Manson-pale but composed, in blue prison denim, his dark hair a flowing frame for his pinched face-walked into the Los Angeles courtroom where the concerns of the state must be met. On his forehead was his symbol of apartness: an X, in his own dried blood, cut there because "I have X-ed myself from your world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Other End of Society | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...free universities' to science cities in the Arctic and wife-swap clubs in California." With Yeatsian gloom, he adds: "It breeds odd personalities, too: children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at 50 are children of twelve. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have pop . . . and op ... and art cinetique . . . There are Playboy Clubs and homosexual movie theaters . . . amphetamines and tranquilizers . . . anger, affluence and oblivion. Much oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Disease of the Future | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

Domed silos stand like sentinels on the horizon. Black Angus cattle amble toward lopsided gray barns. Giant TV antennas, strung with a maze of guy wires, soar 30 ft. above tiny farmhouses. Irrigation ditches run to nowhere. And standing forlornly in fields of stubble corn, boys in blue denim coveralls stare back, but they do not wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Last Days of the Zephyr | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

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