Word: folke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of Arlo's hilltop meadow in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. "It was the kind of wedding," a friend said, "where nothing could go wrong. If it did, it was incorporated into the proceedings." Arlo's mother, the widow of the great dust-bowl folk singer Woody Guthrie, and 40 or so friends and relatives came up from New York by special bus. The bus was late, and could not make it up the last hill. No matter. Everybody, including Justice of the Peace Donald M. Feder, just waited happily, drinking champagne or beer and eating Alice...
...Jackie and Arlo placed crowns (plastic) of stephanotis and ivy leaves in their hair, and were attired in fairyland white-the bride in a shimmering velvet gown and train with lace trim, the bridegroom in a puffed-sleeve shirt and bell-bottom trousers. While the dogs barked a processional, Folk Singer Judy Collins sang Leonard Cohen's Suzanne ("She's touched your perfect body with her mind"). Arlo's mother read a poem that Woody, who died in 1967, had written years ago for his son's wedding: "May your gladness ripen as a yellow sweet...
...Folk and rock singers performed as the huge crowd marched into the Common, and an airplane drew an enormous peace symbol in the sky. Thousands who could not see the podium sprawled on the grass further back in the Common...
After the services, the worshippers walked in a procession to the vigil, which was held on the baseball diamond in the Common. The first arrivals sang folk songs as they waited for the vigil to begin...
...Yorker cartoon version of the Old West and an anti-hero extravaganza for a high school audience. Like a Charlie Chaplin movie, it serves up heaps of comedy and mayhem. The result is mostly successful. Director George Roy Hill has taken a tired theme (the outlaw as folk hero) and maintained it on a very high level of slapstick...