Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promoters prepare to celebrate a pseudo Woodstock, the very...
...boomers armored themselves in hip -- after substituting rock for jazz -- in the hope, perhaps, that the right attitude and the right wardrobe might protect them from mortality itself as they moved through the years. By the time the boomers got to Woodstock, an event that immensely overran the commercial calculations that spawned it, it was possible to believe an entire countercultural universe was being born...
...adjusting his silver wig. Through most of the '60s, Andy Warhol had epitomized an arctic cool so detached it could give equal attention to soup cans and electric chairs. But Warhol's indifference was incomplete. There was never an artist more starstruck and money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur...
...pass since the Kennedy assassination; time for another round of J.F.K. reminiscences. D-day hits the / big five-oh; trot out the veterans and the homilies. We've commemorated the 25th anniversary of virtually every milestone of the '60s -- last month it was the moon landing; coming up next, Woodstock. Forrest Gump, the hit movie of the summer, leads baby boomers through a veritable highlight reel of their shared memories, from Elvis Presley to Vietnam...
...groups named in Rolling Stone magazine as the hot bands to watch this summer, three are mixed gender. And these groups are coming to a stage near you: the Australian band Frente! will be playing U.S. cities this August; Afrocentric rappers Arrested Development will be at Woodstock '94; and the alternative-rock bands Smashing Pumpkins and the Breeders are headlining this summer's touring Lollapalooza music festival...