Word: glitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation of activists grew apathetic: the old spirit of Dylan and Joan Baez seemed to have evaporated. The stage was taken over by a capering rearguard of glitter rockers, demonists and hip vaudevillians...
...Miles, the Andrews Sisters and Liv Ullmann. Coming in at No. 10 was British Hermaphrodite Rock Singer David Bowie, only the second man in 14 years to make the list (the first: Milton Berle). Explained Blackwell: "Bowie's a cross between Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich doing a glitter revival of New Faces...
...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...
...denims. During the summer this took the form of T shirts with silk-screen designs (Marilyn Monroe pinups, for example), funny messages ("Keep on Truckin' ") or advertising slogans ("Try it, you'll like it"). For fall and winter the fad is expanding by borrowing-and satirizing-glitter notions that used to be reserved for evening wear...
Many of the girls are well-known Sunset Strip characters with names like Sable Starr or Lori Lightning, and their accoutrements are kookier than their names: glitter makeup, an electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay and transvestite crowds attracted by performers like Alice Cooper and David Bowie have included one fan dressed as a ladybug and another as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Indeed, so bizarre is the show on the sidewalk that it produces another kind of damage problem: distracted motorists...