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After about three minutes on the open road, Dewitt arrived in Harvard Square and vomited from exhaustion. Deciding that he needed to pace himself, Dewitt took a load off in front of Easy Rider (Brattle Theater). Given Dewitt's current endeavor, it was the perfect choice, a classic film about the groovy days of the late 60s and early 70s. Easy Rider tells the story of two long-haired hippie weirdos, Captain America and Billy (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper), who raise money from a cocaine deal and travel across the country to see Mardi Gras. On their way, they...
...Easy Rider is directed in consummately trippy fashion by Hopper, who once had an intensely hip handlebar mustache before he went on to portray drunks and psychopaths in 80s films. He and Fonda virtually define late 60s cool here, at once aloof (or stoned) and utterly self-righteous. Yet despite the absurdity of their ideas and appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word...
There is an outside chance that drivers may have to dawdle along at 55 despite Congress's green light for the 10-m.p.h. increase. The new speed limit is a rider to an $88 billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...
Mark Salzman was riding an overcrowded bus in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, when he saw a passenger clambering aboard. The driver asked him to step off. The request was ignored, the door closed, and the bus pulled away with the stubborn rider sticking halfway out. Arriving at his destination, the man cheerfully paid half the usual fare and went...
...fall, as well as to commands from a keyboard. The starting price is high: about $250 for a set of two hero robots, two villainous ones and two keyboards. Another competitor will be World Events Productions of St. Louis, which is developing interactive toys to accompany Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. The show features a crew of outer-space cowpokes whose posse youngsters can join by aiming a six-gun "vaporizer...