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EASY RIDER is born of the natural union of American International motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovaes turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Easy Rider at the Charles Street Cinema | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

EASY RIDER is born of the natural union of American International motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovacs turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

...friends from the Boiler Room, perhaps playing some nostalgic games of touch football and having yet another chance to root for a Kennedy. She had never worked directly for Ted Kennedy. In fact, some of her friends remember that, in comparison with his brothers, Ted Kennedy was not an idol to Mary Jo Kopechne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Jo Kopechne: The Girl Next Door | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man." Danny and some 2,500 Italian students turned out to jeer their former idol following trumped-up charges made by U.S. Communist Party Chief Gus Hall at a Moscow press conference. Hall claimed that Marcuse had been "exposed as working for the CIA since World War II" and was "part of a plot to get youth moving toward radicalism but to divert them before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...will now join John P. Maguire & Co,, a Manhattan factoring firm that advances money to small businesses; this will give Stern the chance to study a variety of businesses. He has other reasons for preferring a small company: "I once had an offer from General Motors, but my idol is Ralph Nader." He adds: "I think that there is more to life than earnings per share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ALL-AMERICA TEAM OF BUSINESS STUDENTS | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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