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Word: woodstock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything is relative, and Dai Bosatsu Zendo, relative to everything, is incredible. Six hours from Memorial Church rests a very different center of religion, isolated in the Berkshires (and yet conveniently located 30 miles from Woodstock). The monastery has the simple beauty of classical Japanese style, except that it snuggles against a pristine New York lake and L.L. Bean rivals the soy bean for appreciation on cold winter nights...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...love circle," explains Laze, a 26-year-old graffiti artist from the Bronx who has also attended raves in Philadelphia and Washington. "It's like a 1960s scene -- all the races are together, dancing, having a communal experience. We want to go to Woodstock and rave for a whole week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tripping the Night Fantastic | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...Janeiro, replete with 100 heads of state and a cast of tens of thousands. Some would assert that just having the meeting represents progress, but there is every reason to wish for and expect more. Fortunately, it is no longer possible that it will be naught but an environmental Woodstock or an enormous black hole for diplomatic talent and energy. With a last-minute flurry of negotiation possible, it is as yet unclear how much progress will be made with earth's daunting problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Things Happen in Rio | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...GLOBAL FORUM, Flamengo Park and other city sites, Rio, June 1-14 The largest sideshow will be an ecological Woodstock for an estimated 12,000 people from "nongovernmental organizations," including environmental groups, human-rights movements, religious communities, women's caucuses, youth associations, trade unions and alliances of indigenous peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: Sideshows Galore | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

This is the new Hollywood gospel, and its prophet is Jeffrey Katzenberg. In January, Katzenberg, who runs Walt Disney's movie operations, wrote a staff memo that was passed around Hollywood more quickly and urgently than a joint at Woodstock. In this back-to-basics plea, he ripped the notions of the bankable star. "If this were true," he asked, alluding to Batman and The Two Jakes, "then how can one explain what happened to 1990's vehicle for 1989's 'most bankable star,' Jack Nicholson?" He apologized for the studio's big- budget Dick Tracy and disclosed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Do Stars Deliver? | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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