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John Savage, 27, Forman's leading man, agrees. He plays a sober, clean-cut student activist who gets drafted and is brought to today's be-in by freaky friends for a preinduction fling. "The spirit of the '60s is only something to feel good about," says Savage, displaying all the articulateness that distinguished the youth of that period. "These kids ... some of the memories are happy," he adds, and his eyes mist over with happy memories...
...melting into the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the news from Florida is that the Kansas City Royals have a hot rookie named Clint Hurdle, and the Red Sox's aging Luis Tiant has an ailing finger. This week politicians will be appearing at a variety of stadiums to fling out the first balls of the season. Down in Texas, meanwhile, the hard-hitting rightfielder of Houston's Wheatley High returned to action last week after a federal court ruled that Linda Williams, 18, could no longer be banned from the team just because she is female...
...great-blue-heron look of the early '60s has been consigned to outer darkness. Hollow chests have been replaced by noticeable and often visible breasts, and haughtiness by a sometimes even more disconcerting look of warmth and directness. Artificiality is out and naturalism is in: wind machines to fling hair about in a suitably natural manner have become as important as print dryers in the studios of the fashion world's fashionable photographers...
...this hysteria, though, Crosby is only more extreme than the times he was living in. It has become proverbial to describe the 20s in terms of a final, desperate fling before the reckoning...
Plainly, the nation is witnessing a new form of nomadness, already epidemic and spreading fast. Why? Even though the craze began in California, it is not necessarily incomprehensible. Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current...