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...embarrassing," admits Yippie Abbie Hoffman. "You try to overthrow the Government and end up on the bestseller list." Helped by the substantial sum of $75,000 that his Revolution for the Hell of It and Woodstock Nation have netted him in royalties and film rights, Hoffman has been able to overcome his embarrassment enough to start two more books. When Publisher Bennett Cerf of Random House took a lady visitor to meet his son, Editor Christopher Cerf, he sauntered unannounced into Christopher's office to find Hoffman slouched shirtless at the desk, scribbling away. "That...
...practice a brand all their own. Many talk peace while destroying and hating. They demand money for worthwhile domestic causes, but money needed elsewhere must be used to help straighten out lives ruined by mind-blowing, body-damaging drugs. They take up the ecological banner, and yet the Woodstock happening was an ecological nightmare. Some cry liberty for all and in the same breath laud the Viet Cong. Materialism is rejected, but as products of a materialistic society, they knowingly use and benefit from it daily. They want the war ended, but the type of protest used, I feel...
Full Pay. But mainly the polychromatic rally, with its shimmering flow of blue, red, green and yellow hats amid thousands of American flags, was a festive affair, accenting the positive in a kind of workers' Woodstock. Banners proclaimed GOD BLESS AMERICA and the demonstrators chanted, "All the Way with the U.S.A.!" Martial music, including From the Halls of Montezuma and The Caissons Go Rolling Along, rekindled the World War II spirits of middle-aged workers. Flag-waving demonstrators clung precariously to the uncomfortable tops of moving concrete mixers...
...protesters launched into a version of "We Shall Overcome." The cops had heard that one before, and scented trouble. One of them began to advance. The demonstrators gulped and retreated. With much trepidation, a student approached the cop and explained: "Listen, it's only a promotion for Woodstock...
...Jean-Luc Godard, in the epicenter of the revolution as always, offered West Wind, written in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. The film has its practical side: there are detailed descriptions of how to make gasoline bombs, fuses and timers. From the other side of the Atlantic came M.A.S.H., Woodstock, and a film still unreleased in the U.S., The Strawberry Statement...