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...Star. That sort of economic discipline was thought impossible until last year, when the Peter Fonda-Dennis Hopper production, Easy Rider, hit Hollywood the way the Volkswagen hit Detroit. Shot on a starvation budget of $400,000, the film is expected to gross $30 million-a reminder that people 30 and under account for 75% of the U.S. box office...
...least a temporary decline in farm productivity and a hike in food prices. Fortunately, ecologists are developing reasonable replacements; there is nothing wrong with organic fertilizers or the prechemical method of crop rotation. Much is also being learned about the biological control of pests. To kill the leaf hopper Dikrella, which destroys grapes and is now immune to DDT, California ecologists have employed a tiny wasp?and the cost of controlling leaf hoppers has declined by 87% since the wasp buzzed into action...
...addition to Cawley's bill, four others, now in the legislative hopper, deal with the Stadium. Hearings on the other four bills-which would either remove or reduce the facility's tax exemption-will be held on Feb. 12. At the moment, it seems unlikely that any of the bills stand a good chance of approval by the legislature...
There are so few images of people beyond the vulgar shapes of Pop that every figure you come across prints its plaintive face on your mind. Hollowness emanating like artificial sunlight from the doll-like people-the works of Hopper stand out from among the abstract pieces with haunting truthfulness. The only lyrical references to humanity emerge from the brush strokes of De Kooning and Kline-figures of paint both suggested and dissolved by a network of strokes. But the viewer of the vast rooms of abstraction feels the constant stares of the paintings reaching beyond their frames, asking...
EASY RIDER is a major movie that follows two youths on their search for where it's at. Director-Actor Dennis Hopper has created a classic by letting townspeople "rap" at will and drawing a top performance from Newcomer Jack Nicholson...