Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clincher, of course, is that Bill once had a blind date with Janis Joplin. He's the man of the hour: a father figure, a sex symbol, and he's fighting for what's right...
...some kind of social Golden Age, when there was no Viet Nam, no social conflict. There weren't any Negroes, nothing bad happened. You have Woodstock, but you don't have the war. You have Jim Morrison as some image of sexual nirvana, but you don't have Janis Joplin for the miserable junkie she was. But Dylan, the Beatles, Aretha, the Stones, all the good music cannot be separated from the fear and the terror that people were feeling...
...people whose sayings must be collected as a "valuable resource...for the speaker, writer, and student," as the book jacket says? Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger, Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin, just to name...
...nation pulsed with music and proclamation, with rages and moral pretensions. "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius," sang the cast of Hair, which came to Broadway in April. Janis Joplin expressed one side of the year fairly well: ecstatic and self-destructive simultaneously, wailing to the edges of the universe, flirting with the abyss. Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970, memorably sang Me and Bobbie Magee, the 1969 Kris Kristofferson song that contained a perfect line of 1968 philosophy, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...
COVER: Photographs of daisies and bullet by Armen Kachaturian, Janis Joplin by Dan McCoy -- Black Star, U.S. Soldiers in Viet Nam by Larry Burrows -- LIFE, Robert Kennedy by Burt Glinn -- Magnum, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star