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Amplified Whirlpool. Such scenes have not been uncommon during the past three weeks on the latest U.S. tour by the Jimi Hendrix Experience-Hendrix plus Englishmen Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. Their music, when Jimi pauses to concentrate on it, is a whirlpool where the currents of Negro blues and psychedelic rock meet, and it churns with all but overwhelming power from their nine amplifiers and 18 speakers. But it is no more than a conveyor on which the high-riding Hendrix projects his anti-personality: wild, woolly and wicked...
...generations, Englishmen have liked to down their bitter in the chatty, relaxed atmosphere of the local pub. That is where they swallow more than four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol...
...rapidly becomes a certified adult. Until recently, puberty occurred at about 14 or 15, marriage two or three years later. The word "teenager" was inconceivable for such 17-year-old adults as Joan of Arc or Surveyor George Washington. In the 18th century, many upper-class Englishmen impressively taught their eldest sons at home; in stressing adult concerns as well as academics, they took Locke's advice: "The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will...
...film has already been seen by about 100,000 Englishmen in small cinemas throughout Britain. It was premiered at Lincoln Center last fall, and is now being distributed throughout the U.S. It is a stomach...
...because it was too horrifying. This uproar dramatized the potentials and weaknesses of the nationalized television industry. On the one hand, the resources of the B.B.C. allowed Watkins to make The War Game. On the other hand, the conservatism of the B.B.C. (which has become to many young Englishmen the perfect symbol of the Establishment) prevented the public from seeing the movie...