Word: presleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exploiting an extraordinary wealth of scholarly, journalistic and pop culture documentation--everything from Dr. Spock to Elvis Presley to Mad Magazine--the author develops a complex web of historical context to explain the origins and antecedents of a movement that has all too often been simplistically reduced to single determinants (the war, the Bomb, the generation gap, etc.). Both rigorous and readable, his analysis convincingly explains how the student movement and the counterculture came into being without either trivializing them or drowning itself in its own data...
...Bernhard Goetz just a volatile Everyman, ourselves pushed to the limit, and then beyond? Or was he in fact an aberration? Often, besides, eccentrics may simply be weirdos in possession of a VIP pass, people * rich enough or powerful enough to live above convention, amoral as Greek gods. Elvis Presley could afford to pump bullets into silhouettes of humans and never count the cost. Lesser mortals, however, must find another kind of victim...
These hilarious turns are just Adrian's fictional voices. He also does impressions of everyone from Walter Cronkite to Elvis Presley. In between, he keeps making these curious analogies between the position of the G.I. in Viet Nam and Dorothy in the Land of Oz. And, no, one had not observed until Adrian pointed it out just how much the voice of Richard M. Nixon resembles that...
...nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than this! If this isn't the right part, then there's nothing...
Still, one wishes that Madison Avenue would leave the best oldies alone. No Marvin. No Aretha. Frankie Avalon, sure, but no Elvis Presley. Gerry and the Pacemakers, please, but don't mess with the Crystals or the Drifters. But as Buddy Holly sang, "That...