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Divorced. Bob Dylan, 36, folk-rock superstar; and Sara Dylan, 34; after eleven years of marriage, five children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
LOOSE CHANGE by Sara Davidson 367 pages. Doubleday...
Jeff, a Berkeley Bakunin, worked at shutting down the Establishment and the war; Susie kept nagging him to take a shower and use deodorant. They became, writes Sara Davidson, "a showpiece couple. They demonstrated and went to jail together." They did everything together except levitate the Pentagon. Tasha, with her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, was the arty one. She fell in love with a well-known sculptor and worried about having small breasts...
...Sara (Author Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...
...second problem is more serious. Davidson meets with the guru Ram Dass, formerly Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary's partner in chemical consciousness. In a spasm of sincerity, Sara understands: "From my new perspective.I saw that most pieces of journalism, certainly my most successful pieces, were based on an attitude of superiority and ridicule. If I wanted to honor the divinity in people, I could no longer treat them this way - coaxing them into spilling information I could use against them to make a good story...