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...only confused laughter from the audience. Many of Fassbinder's visual and aural techniques also fail precisely because they try so hard to be profound and meaningful: one can't help but wonder, for instance, whether there is supposed to be some deeper meaning to the playing of Janis Joplin's "Me and My Bobby McGee" during certain scenes in Biberkopf's dream sequence...
CREMATION NATION Designer Gianni Versace joined Janis Joplin, Albert Einstein and John Lennon by being cremated upon death. Forty years ago, fewer than 4% of Americans chose cremation, but in 1995 21% did. That figure is expected to rise to 40% by 2010. California and Florida lead the U.S. in number of cremations. People who pick cremation see it as simpler and less expensive than a burial--and it certainly consumes less space. The average cremated remains weigh about 6 1/2 lbs. and take up about 200 cu. in., the volume of a small shoe...
RUTH BAMBERGER (D) District 7 (Southwest--Springfield; Joplin...
Many of Bennett's themes resonate with boomer parents who were '60s liberals but now seek an antidote to the antisocial, materialist messages their children are absorbing from popular culture. And as someone who himself played guitar in a rock band, had a date with Janis Joplin, opposed the Vietnam War and campaigned for civil rights in Mississippi, Bennett demonstrates through his personal journey how far America has moved during the past three decades on cultural issues...
After Williams, Bennett entered the University of Texas as a doctoral candidate in political philosophy under the brilliant and ferocious John Silber. It was at Texas that Bennett was able to arrange a blind date, after one of her concerts, with hard-living singer Joplin. He recalls only that she seemed "sad" and envied his life as a graduate student...