Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Hair the play opened in Los Angeles about 11 years ago, the Aquarius theatre's exterior wall faced the parking lot muraled in a spiralling Beardsley-style medley of psychedelic colors and stereotyped figures on their way to Woodstock. That was when we were in the midst of Vietnam, Chicago 7, Timothy Leary and Hare Krishna. The play poked fun at everyone, including its own heroes to some degree, but some earnest zeal and anger permeated, betraying a sympathy with the movement. Fortunately, the movie is handled with humor and a light easygoing attitude which circumvents the cringing prospect...
...foggy Oklahoma road, taking Claude to New York City where he is to spend his last days of liberty before enlisting into the Armed Forces. At Central Park, Claude meets up with his soon-to-be buddies who triumphantly ask him to spare some change. Amused by their long hair and "I've Got Life' spirit, he finally reaches into his pocket...
...American director might have struggled more self-consciously with the concept of a filmed Hair, unearthing the despair and shame, the horror and uncertainties of the late sixties. But Hair is too light a vehicle for that kind of agonizing exorcism it would have been mawkish, shallow posturing. Someday an American director will film that scraggly mess. But for now, Milos Foreman keeps Hair cheerfully scruffy...
Once the United States finally halted its destruction of Vietnam the self-proclaimed New Left, torn by factionalism and deprived of the war as its impelling centerpiece, dissipated. But contrary to contemporary mythology. Harvard's radicals did not simply cut their hair, don suits and flock hastily to the nearest law or business school. Many are teachers in urban schools, directors of public interest groups, union organizers. Some are academics. Few, if any, now believe that revolution lurks just around the corner. But if they have discarded some of the rhetoric, they have not abandoned their ideals: radical or progressive...
More generally, homosexuals adopted long hair before it became de rigueur for young males of all persuasions; once long hair was in, the gays led the swing to short back and sides. There is, in fact, a saying among homosexuals that straights will adopt a fashion just as avante-garde gays are turning to something...