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Most of this year's "revolutionary." productions-films like Z. Woodstock, Getting Straight, The Strawberry Statement, and M*A*S*H -provide such "safe outlets" and are easily assimilated into the Structure, generation a quasi-militant excitement and then exorcising it like a demon. They reduce revolution to a few thrills, chills, heroics, and laughs, and leave the audience emotionally "satisfied...
...most of the network variety shows, including Merve Griffin for the 34th time last week, and has played Caesars Palace in Vegas with Frank Sinatra. She has a big three-octave range and reaches high C with ease in Johnny One Note. Like Karen, Julie belongs chronologically to the Woodstock Nation, but her spirit lies in Tin Pan Alley. Their repertory is mostly golden oldies, and so is their following. "Adults dig me better than kids," says Julie, though she adds: "My parents are not ready for me." Her father, vice president of a bottling company, is not awed...
...people receive the right to plant miniature Viet Cong flags on the Ellipse behind the White House, where Boy Scouts and others will set out American flags. The request was, of course, denied, but an attempt by antiwar groups to do anything similar could produce trouble. Ambassadors from the Woodstock nation promise a huge pot party on the Mall for the Fourth, threatening to appear with red, white and blue marijuana joints. Some will doubtless wear flag shirts and bell bottoms, the paraphernalia of their wholly different patriotism. Not everyone will appreciate the distinction...
...Movies in Cambridge are much cheaper than they are in Boston, where we are treated to the spectacle of the Cheri charging $4.00 to see Woodstock. The Cambridge films tend to be a little less current than those shown in the plush plastic palaces in the other place...
...lines from Berkeley to Birmingham, from Chicago to Kent State. Celebrities like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman can stay close to the action without exactly pinching pennies: Rubin's book Do It! has already earned him $45,000; Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It and Woodstock Nation have raked in a cool $75,000 so far. Like other members of the Chicago Seven, they can command lecture fees of several hundred dollars. But for the rank and file of the movement, survival in the society they are working to destroy -and the financing of the machinery...