Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MIDDLE AMERICA is taking this book to heart. The jacket already boasts a string of blurbs from the Piusburgh Press, the Fresno Bee, and Publishers Weekty. In the opinion of Library Journal. The Whole World is Watching -by Mark Gerzon 70-is "required reading for the over-30 generation." Adults have a unique gift for humoring these shallow apologias of the youth scene. Perhaps it's just practice. Mark Gerzon's excursion into pop sociology reads like a work commissioned by Look Magazine...
Resplendent in a magenta shirt and fringed-leather jacket, Dr. Timothy Leary, 49, the guru of psychedelia, heard a Laredo, Texas, jury convict him for the second time of smuggling marijuana from Mexico in his daughter's underwear. "Stay loving and keep cool," advised the smiling impenitent, whose first conviction for the 1965 border incident was thrown out by the Supreme Court. "I am sorry the Government learned nothing in five years...
...imagine first that you're sitting back in your apartment high over Cambridge, Massachusetts, when you flip out the Who from their jacket cover, put them on the turntable, and set the needle for "The Amazing Journey." It's usually when you just get to the part where the kettle drums come in (bum-bum, ba-dum ba-dum) that you realize that it's almost like you were right there watching them play that music. Maybe, you think, you should...
...genuine blondeness of Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan, and an ingenious method is found to reveal her in the shower. The doctors' young houseboy is encouraged to beat the Korean draft by accelerating his heartbeat with Speed. The pious Major Burns (Robert Duvall) is driven into a strait-jacket when his bed is bugged during a furtive love scene with Hot Lips. Their jubilant moans are broadcast on the camp's public-address system...
...take horse players to Narragansett for winter racing. The quality of horses in Pawtucket has sagged gradually over the years, but the club-house still retains some of its old glamour. The rice pudding is excellent, and nothing can really match the clam chowder. A waiter in a white jacket with a towel over his arm shuffles over to your table, and from a shiny mug he pours the hot tangy broth into your bowl...