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...French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest for a murder so grisly an entire city had gasped...
...DUSTIN HOFFMAN Tootsie star objects to fake photo in gown. Judge says suit yourself, but it's free speech
...reinforced here with "Grooving in Chi" a first-person account of the "police riot" that occurred at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. "Dig" ends on a somewhat somber note, though, as '60s survivor Terry recalls good times he shared with old friends (including Frank O'Hara and Abbie Hoffman) in a series of eulogies and tribute articles. These pieces make one lament the fact that Southern never got around to writing his proposed memoirs. Taken together, "Grand Guy" and "Now Dig This" do an admirable job of filling that gap - as well as increasing the average reader's awareness...
...crowded Manhattan street corner). The book clearly tapped into the zeitgeist of the time: the pranks and scams pulled off by Grand prefigure the performance-art "happenings" of later years, the carefree antics of Ken Kesey's "Merry Pranksters," and the media-grabbing events staged by Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin...
...stronger he becomes to radicals around the world. Intelligence officials also feel that, despite a near 20% decline in anti-American terrorism incidents over the past decade, the war against terror may be unwinnable. "It's one of these phenomena we have to live with," says Bruce Hoffman of Rand, the California-based think tank. "It's the price we pay for being a superpower...