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...Cutoffs: How Family Members Who Sever Relationships Can Reconnect, thinks that today's broader cultural freedoms have made it easier for people to say goodbye to traditions and to relatives. "The nuclear family is not as tight as it once was," she says. Some rifts reflect larger trends. The Woodstock generation, Netzer explains, was full of young people leaving their families to lose themselves in drugs or join religious groups, political movements and communes. "Often, when that ripple in the culture passes," says Netzer, "people go back to their families." Terry Hargrave, family therapist and author of Families and Forgiveness...
DIED. GWEN VERDON, 75, Broadway's first lady of dance and winner of four Tony Awards; in Woodstock, Vt. She married choreographer Bob Fosse in 1960 and had one of her greatest successes as Roxie Hart in his production of Chicago. The two separated in 1971 but never divorced (see Eulogy below...
...that mythological decade of cultural madness-imploded Dec. 6, 1969 at the Altamont Speedway. There, the promise of Woodstock and the Age of Aquarius mutated into a frenzied paroxysm of violence, leaving 850 injured and four dead. From Nov. 3 through Nov. 9, the Brattle Theater will be showing a newly restored and re-edited version of Gimme Shelter-the completely enthralling and horrifying documentary that captured the day's ferocious chaos...
...things, the film underscores the power of documentary film to capture the unexpected. It was initially conceived of as a fairly straightforward concert/tour movie (albeit directed by the controversial masters of cinema verit David and Albert Maysles). The moment seemed ripe for such a project: in the wake of Woodstock, hippiedom was charting a hopeful course with its promise of unbridled freedom and creativity. And the Rolling Stones were touring the U.S., culminating in a giant San Francisco festival already billed as "the Woodstock of the West." More than anything else, the film seemed poised to capture the energy...
...necessarily the villains intruding on the peace-n-love vibes of the hippies. The entire dark side of '60s is on display: chaos and mindless anarchy have rushed into the void cleared by the vague promise of freedom. The audiences seen here are the dark doppelgangers of Woodstock. Every face looks programmed and every movement emotionless, like a Stepford Wives vision of the hippiedom. Along with the Charles Manson bloodbath four months earlier, Altamont revealed the antipode of Woodstock's blissed-out flower children-the negative space on the other side of the spaces of freedom that the '60s opened...