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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GENERATION Y Burned and pillaged Woodstock '99, giving boomers one more thing to be smug about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...other hand, what happened at Woodstock '99 (arson, pillaging, freelance mayhem) was much in the spirit of the music and of the occasion itself, which, for all the tie-dyed shirts, peace signs, long hair and dope, was only a venal shadow of an irrecoverable ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madness of Crowds | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Savagery and innocence commingled oddly. The spectacle had tabloids the next day writing about Woodstock '99 as if it were a sort of sock hop for the Children of the Corn. And that, mind you, was before the papers learned about the rapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madness of Crowds | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...days that followed, it seemed that sexual assault would become the ugliest motif of Woodstock '99. State police confirmed that they were investigating four allegations of rape; of course, they have little hope of finding the rapists, who are by now scattered across the country. There were apparently numerous other incidents of sexual assault. David Schneider, a rehabilitation counselor from Jessup, Md., told the Washington Post that during a performance by the group Korn on the first night, he saw a "very skinny girl, maybe 90 or 100 lbs.," get pushed into the mosh pit, where "a couple of guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madness of Crowds | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...crowd, of course, may at any moment become a mob, devolving into a single, violent mind. It's too bad that the Doofus of Mayhem (to give the idiot a title, like the Duke of Windsor) got loose at this third Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madness of Crowds | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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