Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Road to Knafel...
...greatest signifier of youthful identity, pop music, was dominated throughout the '80s by the middle of the road. An undeclared countercultural youth trend first reared its spiky head at the start of the '90s with the mass popularity of "alternative" music. We see it in the ascent of neohippie raves and the creative anarchy that still holds its own on the Internet. Indeed, if thousands were identifying with small underground papers in the '60s, millions access eccentric, irreverent webzines in the '90s. And then there are those polls that show teenagers switching from cocaine or abstention to marijuana, the perennial...
...optimistic. After just one day of testimony, two jurors were replaced, one because of illness and the other after her husband died unexpectedly. That leaves only four alternates in a case that could last up to a year. The trial of Charles Ng, like everything else about his long road to justice, will not be easy...
...ROAD WORRIER...
...possible that Beat bad boy JACK KEROUAC was as pragmatic, as structured, as hopelessly square as everyone else in the Eisenhower '50s? In the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly, historian Douglas Brinkley deflates the myth that Kerouac pounded out On the Road in a three-week burst of manic energy sustained by jazz and Benzedrine. After sifting through documents to which he was recently granted access by Kerouac's estate, Brinkley reveals that the author, who died in 1969, actually planned, plotted and outlined his homage to nomadic nonconformity well before writing the novel's final draft...