Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countryside--the Band, the Byrds, Dylan, Jimi Hendrix et al are employed as a musical landscape, part of the backdrop of the youth subculture, but hardly integral or necessary. Hopper doesn't explore or celebrate rock the way that Peter Whitehead did with the Pink Floyd in Tonight Let's All Make Love in London or as Robert Nelson did in The Grateful Dead; rather he sticks it in and lets it lay there, guaranteeing large audiences. In my view the film is poorer for it. Nothing in Easy Rider's endless shots of motorcycles (stolen, as was some...
...move into the sunlight where the contrasts are clear. He will never fill up another ashtray, but he still manages to empty a few bottles. "Getting out with my comrades," he says, "and talking revolution, jeez, I'll hit it pretty good." Forever the superpatriot, he once refused to let a bandleader play his favorite tune because "everybody would've had to stand up." Yet beyond the self-parody, beyond the fifth-face-at-Mount-Rushmore pose, there is a heroic essence that Wayne manages to convey. Today, like "war," the word "hero" is usually preceded by a disinfectant: "anti...
...real losers are those who followed ABC's advice. The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly letting them dissolve their private trusts and foundations, and no criminal charges will be brought. At the very least, though, they will have to pay all their back taxes, plus interest. The victims have one consolation: the IRS may let them write off their ABC fees as theft losses...
...Paul and 50 other bishops and cardinals celebrated an "all-African" Mass to mark the consecration of a dozen black bishops; he urged the new prelates to help create "that new civilization, African and Christian." Later, in an address to the Uganda National Assembly, he reproved colonialism for "having let economic interests prevail over human considerations," and condemned "social situations based on racial discrimination" (an apparent reference to apartheid) as "an affront to the fundamental rights of the human person." On a visit to a poor suburban neighborhood, he declared that "rural Africa must be aided in developing its immense...
...Easter Island's sufferings in recent centuries. The island was discovered on Easter Sunday, 1722, by a Dutch admiral named Roggeveen, who was intrigued by the stone giants and observed that although some of the natives were obviously Polynesian, others had white skins and red hair. He also let his men shoot down a few indigenes after a minor misunderstanding. Subsequent Western visitors apparently felt free to kill any native on whim. In 1811, an American whaler added a touch of Yankee ingenuity. Some island girls were lured aboard. After the crew had made a night...