Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Graham organized two more benefits like it. He chose an old auditorium in the heart of San Francisco's black ghetto. It was called the Fillmore. Then he switched to another site, the present Fillmore West, set up the Fillmore East as the second axis of the rock world, and proved that rock was a business worth administering well...
...talking to all of you who smoke," thundered the Rev. Clayton Brooks, addressing the townsfolk of Eagle Rock, gathered on the courthouse lawn. "You have the opportunity to fail an Almighty call, and you also have the opportunity to fail your own person, your own life, your own body, your own family, your own self. I ask you once more, those of you who smoke, to get up here and sign that pledge to stop now!" Perspiring, Reverend Brooks stepped down from his green gazebo pulpit. Somebody held out a lighted cigarette; he accepted it gratefully and took a long...
...Eagle Rock," read Greenfield, Iowa. For "Reverend Brooks," read Actor Dick Van Dyke-filming a scene for a forthcoming United Artists movie, Cold Turkey, a whimsical story of a town whose citizens decide en masse to kick the smoking habit. The whimsy became reality a month ago when-on the promise of a $6,000 reward from U.A. -Greenfield smokers formally signed a pledge to quit puffing for 30 days and incinerated hundreds of cartons of cigarettes on the town square. Last week the month of official abstinence ended, and with allowances for the veracity of the people involved...
...country, Forest City, Iowa (pop. 2,900) was dying. The region's corn and hog farms were too small to be tilled profitably, and its greatest exports were people. Youngsters grew up and moved to nearby Minneapolis - and beyond - to find work, leaving their parents behind to rock in the sun and talk over old times...
...scenes with J.R. and his buddies that are of peripheral importance. The whole of the picture is less than the sum of its parts, many of which abound with vitality and cinematic invention. Scorsese choreographs his camera movements with an exhilarating, easy grace, and his dramatic use of rock 'n' roll (the film's title comes from a 1958 hit by the Genies) surpasses similar efforts in The Graduate and Easy Rider. Such fragments are bright enough to make Who's That Knocking-and more important, Martin Scorsese-worth watching...