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...United States and Canada for the past half century is now 76, an age which has critics pontificating on his long career. Most agree that Frank was one of the biggest influences on photography and cinema in the 20th century, often referring back to the label Jack Kerouac first stuck to him, "the poet of the camera...
Yoga was little known in the U.S.--perhaps only as an enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation--when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president...
...Yoga was little known in the U.S. - perhaps only as an enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation - when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president...
...ELIZABETH II To celebrate her golden jubilee, the monarch will be given a $1.4 million tricked-out Bentley capable of going 250 km/h. Go granny, go! COURTNEY WALSH Keep the cucumber sandwiches coming. The West Indies cricketer is the first bowler to take 500 wickets in Test history JACK KEROUAC Beat this. The wire-service paper roll on which On the Road was written is expected to fetch more than $1 million at auction...
...revolt against the conventionality of postwar America - that obligatory wholesomeness captured in Malcolm Morley's Beach Scene, with its picture-perfect family frolicking on the sand while the father's eerily bestial smile hints at the dark underbelly of the American dream. As writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac raged against bourgeois conformism, and the nation's youth turned on to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the Pop Art movement provided the technicolor iconography of a full-fledged counterculture...