Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easy Rider is basically the filmic diary of a motorcycle trip through the Southwest to New Orleans. The travelers are two young hip types, Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) who have managed to smuggle in a large quantity of cocaine, and, having bought two Harleys, are heading for Mardi Gras to celebrate. The two meet up with George Hanson (Jack Richardson), a drunken Southern lawyer, while in a Deep South Jail. Hanson, yearning for some legendary whorehouse and dominated unto middle-age by his Daddy, decides to accompany them to New Orleans. But camped out one night they...
...proposals to block "socialized medicine." It was not to be business as usual, however. Just after the predominantly white, middle-aged doctors had joined in a 30-minute tribute to the flag, a strident group of young medical students, doctors and nurses burst into the hall, chanting "Hip, hip Hippocrates, up with service, down with fees...
...many rock fans, nothing beats a good weekend festival of sound. Out in the open, with a dozen or so singers and bands to groove with, the living is easy. "Everybody is smiling and offering you food and laughing," explains one hip ticket buyer. "It's a really groovy thing when it's going right-kind of like the way you'd like the world...
...longhaired people get arrested for jaywalking and then thrown in jail. The Bird is now on trial for, of all things, obscenity. I don't have to tell you that this stuff against the Bird is political suppression. But through it all I truly believe that it's the hip cultural movement that's eventually got to save the South. The South so eagerly gobbles up everything that's shiny and new in America. Right now it's Playboy Clubs and Tastees. But they drink our rock music, too. That's where we'll start to get them--through what...
There is something different about Blood, Sweat, and Tears when they walk on and set up. Maybe it's that you know that so many of them have their degrees from Julliard tucked away in the hip pockets of their bell-bottoms. But I don't think so. It's an air about them, a feeling they give you, a funny thing to define. You just know that they're not up there to drown you with decibels; they know what they're doing--exactly what they're doing...