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...Tike chronicle one of the most beauteous single days you could ever spend in fiction or in life. Tike is a boy who lives in a room and works nights shelving books at a library. He has a dog named McDog and an unfailing fountain of music from his stereo. A lady gives him a record for his helpful knowledge of discography. A girl downstairs named Val wants to sleep with Tike and does. Other people in his building invite him into their lives...
...newspaper is at a disadvantage. Harvard indeed provided a few details in its strike coverage that were overlooked by the other local disseminators of information. Such things as the strange odyssey of Dean Peterson through those days, looking for someone to talk to; what was being played on the stereo blasting from Weld Hall; the attendance of Deans Watson and Glimp at the police briefing before the bust; the fact that, as lines waiting to board paddy wagons got longer, police let thirty or forty demonstrators go; the disappearance of Dean Ford's favorite pipe...
...often, the movie business feels the need to create a new character-part joke, part sex bomb, seducible, available, palpable-to enliven the daydreams of the American male. The phase is familiar, and Raquel Welch is going through it. "People think of me as some zaftig lady with two stereo nose cones staring everyone in the face," she admits. "The American idea of sex is two outsized mammary glands...
Wilcox estimated the total value of the losses at bout $5000. Missing items include stereo equipment, television, records, and clothes...
Monterey Pop is a color-and-stereo-phonic-sound souvenir of the 1967 festival of rock music in California. Under the supervision of D. A. Pennebaker, who made Don't Look Back, the one widely seen verite documentary, more than half a dozen cameramen prowled the crowd catching the mood-but not the meaning-of the event. Several performers (Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar) come through with a jolting, immediate intensity, but watching Monterey Pop is like listening to an LP with pictures. Twenty years from now, the film may have value as a historical curiosity. Surely...