Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were never allowed out in the sun. There is not much work or exercise. When Captain Rumble was asked how the prisoners fought boredom, he replied: "We were allowed to sweep the grounds." Then he added hesitantly: "We ate two meals ... we smoked cigarettes ... we were allowed to listen to the Voice of Viet Nam"-English-language broadcasts from Hanoi...
...cult is now growing up around the once-despised car. Edsel buffs around the country are banding together to compare their cars and defend them to any one who will listen. Edselana in the form of badges, buckles and cap medallions is circulating. The trinkets feature a reproduction of Edsel's rather forgettable front-end design. Two weeks ago, 50 members of the Edsel Owners Club of America rolled into Reno, under a banner reading "The Edsels Are Here," for the club's first Western regional meeting. Last weekend, the 600-member club held its first national convention...
...Others, however, see the trend as deeper and longer-lasting. Says Pete Johnson, former rock-music critic for the Los Angeles Times: "With Sgt. Pepper, records got really artsy-craftsy-more cerebral than gut. You had 15-minute rock symphonies and huge, long, pretentious albums that you had to listen to 20 times to understand. It got so you couldn't tell anything from this mill of sounds made by these esthetes of rock. Then there came a cry for primitivism, and you started hearing rock 'n' roll-a name that had been unfashionable-as opposed...
...street youths, who were paid $70 per week, seemed to understand their responsibility too. "Listen, man," one said, "the money ain't the only reason I'm doing this job. I'm doing something to teach 'the man.' He come in here all cocksure about the ghetto. These guys don't know nothing except their two cars and sweet life. I'm showing 'em where it's at. If they don't catch it today, they never going...
Hopper's frankly commercial use of rock gives us one more insight into his real sensibility. Easy Rider may be a hippy vision, but it's a bourgeois hippy vision, concocted with both eyes on the market place. Just listen to how Hopper treated sex, and why: "I knew that Peter and I the girls we meet would never be seen totally nude in the nude swimming scene, because I wanted to show the over-forty crowd that it is possible to play like innocent children in the nude without getting into sex." In the echo chamber of our Hollywood...