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...counterculture is alive and thriving on Madison Avenue. Advertisers have been using nostalgia to hawk everything from GTE phone service to the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm to music by such '60s icons as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. In a current Chevrolet ad, a pair of '60s-style flower children morph into the proud Establishment-type owners of a Chevy Venture van. "The bad pun we use is that baby boomers will retread, not retire," says Yankelovich's Smith...
...Plavsic was "a fairly honest fanatic," says an experienced Western official in Sarajevo. While Karadzic and his top aides grew rich off the war's black market, strutting about in expensive suits and driving flashy Mercedes, Plavsic stuck to matronly flower-print dresses and drove a green Volkswagen...
Harlequin, 17, whose Deadhead father gave her a hippie nickname, as he did most of his 12 children (Sunshine, Moonshine...), opines that "the '60s life-style still seems to be going very strong." But beyond her fashion statement--a flower-child revision, with pastel jewels on her nose and forehead--she is hard-pressed to cite any examples. "We have Phish, now that the Dead are gone," she ventures. "And raves. It's very much the same idea as a be-in or love-in to go to a rave...
They'd been dueling for more than a decade, the binary wonders of the computer age: Steve Jobs, the flower-child dreamer whose Apple Computer brought the world the Mac's cheerful desktop icons, and Bill Gates, the brilliant and ruthless competitor whose Microsoft tamed the world with Windows after sneaking in behind those scary columns of DOS code. Their battle for control of the home computer suggested '60s barricades re-erected for the corporate '80s: Yin vs. Yang. Luke vs. Vader. Kennedy vs. Nixon. Jeans vs. Pinstripes. Art vs. Commerce...
Like the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm Ltd., EPE is indeed a ferocious guardian of its properties and with a wolverine-like tenacity, has managed to back off everyone from the Thomas Cook travel agency (trinkets for Memphis tours) to the state of Mississippi (Elvis-shaped flower arrangements) to fan clubs in Kuala Lumpur to the Federal Government of the U.S. (in a dispute over licensing the popular 1993 Elvis stamp). The Presley cases remain the legal precedent most often cited when other stars' estates attempt to lay cease-and-desist orders on "infringers," making EPE a hero to many...