Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of a Humanities Quad was pure 1960s. It was about getting together, loving, sharing and maybe, just maybe, smoking a little grass. It was together, not apart. It was Woodstock I, not Whitewater. It was the 1969 World Series, not the baseball strike. It was the Peace Corps, not a recruiting meeting for Goldman Sachs. It was John and Yoko, not Woody and Soon...
Before MTV became the sugar daddy of rock 'n' roll, before Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was even out of grade school, before the term alternative rock was trampled into the mud at the overhyped Woodstock '94, there was R.E.M. The , band, formed in 1980, is known for its artful, challenging music as well as its emotive, elliptical lyrics. Rather than succumbing to common-denominator tastes and releasing music that is too easily accessible, it has followed its own eccentric muse. In doing so, it set a standard for such alternative bands of the '90s as Pearl Jam and Offspring...
...Woodstock '94 had recycling bins, a solar-powered "Eco Village" and eco-conscious Birkenstockers, but the event was bad news for Mother Earth. A month after the show, Ulster County, New York, authorities say the show's organizers recycled a scant 2 percent of their 15,000 tons of refuse. Promoter Woodstock Ventures risks up to $4,000 a day in fines, since state law says much of the mess can't go in landfills...
...Missile Crisis, it was quite clear that a Soviet base in Cuba would spell disaster for American security. The United States's hard-line policy grew even harder, faithfully perpetuated by a succession of presidents, both Democrats and Republicans. Through Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, through the Vietnam War, Woodstock, disco, and Reaganomics, Castro still ruled in Havana, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States despite the crushing weight of the trade embargo...
...JEFF POIRIER, MEMBER OF THE WOODSTOCK '94 NATION