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...DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as 1970's Oscar-winning Woodstock; in San Francisco. Myers also worked on such feature films as George Lucas' 1971 futuristic debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome to L.A. Before moving into the rock 'n' roll genre, the New York native was a leader of the 1960s cinema v?rit? documentary movement and traversed the globe for United Nations and National Geographic documentaries...
...700s B.C. to the end of the 4th century A.D.--tens of thousands of spectators from across the ancient world descended on the fields of Olympia to watch athletes compete. Wars were suspended, clothes were stripped off, and wine was devoured in what was the premodern equivalent of Woodstock, the Super Bowl and a suburban key party. In their 2004 bid, the Greeks promised not just to reference their history but also to re-create it. The shot-put event would be staged amid the ruins of ancient Olympia; the marathon course would retrace the doomed steps of Phidippides...
...newly-renovated dorm, offers me a cup of coffee and asks to see the write-up in Let’s Go. He is immensely pleased that the book mentions the Exodus festival, which occurs, it seems, whenever he feels like losing money on it. (“Not Woodstock,” he says, “Goodstock. Heh heh heh heh.”) Each January for the past few years, 5,000 people have descended on the tiny lake where I not-fished, filling in a 2-kilometer square area with tents, camper vans and drugs...
...years, as a solo artist and as part of several iconic groups, Stills has mixed politics with rock ‘n’ roll. He electrified Woodstock and lit up the Berlin Wall as it fell. Speaking at Harvard might be a high point for most public speakers, but for Stills it was more like a night...
...Klein's Column "How To Win Over A Nation of Partisans" [April 12] was exactly on the mark. Partisan hysteria from both right and left in this campaign has reached a stage at which the linchpins of American political progress--reasonable dialogue and compromise--are nearly nonexistent. BOB JONES Woodstock...