Word: kerouacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students read Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, and the recent anthology Secret Agents, which explores the Rosenberg trial...
Before the play, I saw him, he saw me. We had been friends once. We exchanged perfunctory greetings, but the smirk on his face told me he knew my five-minute drive across town couldn't quite match the coolness of his Jack Kerouac move...
Smith adroitly deflected attention from herself to others such as Mapplethorpe and Shepard. She read one of Kerouac's poems and credited 10,000 Maniacs with "Because the Night," a song she wrote with Bruce Springsteen. Janet Hamill, Smith's good friend and 'mentor' opened the reading with her own sensual descriptions of art and landscapes...
...offstage like cameos. Here is a good-natured Allen Ginsberg, a self-absorbed Anais Nin, a pathologically untruthful Truman Capote, an endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...
Iarrive at Central Square wearing black, unlit cigarette in hand. With romanticized notions of Kerouac and Ginsberg, I am ready to light up and spout out deep thoughts. But the Cantab Lounge reminds me more of a scummy bar in the middle of nowhere than of the urban youth underground I am expecting. It's the smell of cheap beer, and not the energy of angst, that hits me as I walk...