Word: woodstocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woodstock, N.Y., became the symbol of the Age of Aquarius when it lent its name to a three-day love-in and rock concert featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Arlo Guthrie. Though the festival was ultimately held 50 miles away, Flower Power devotees and New York City weekenders have since flocked to the once quiet community. But as Woodstock (pop. 6,800) has grown, it has run into some of the fiscal problems facing other towns and cities. Among them: paying off an $8.5 million debt to the local sewer district...
LIVING The Woodstock spirit is alive and well among the Rainbow People...
...Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Jim Morrison's grave site pulls in the biggest crowds: pilgrims, rockophiles, ragged hippies who look as if they stepped out of a Woodstock Portosan 20 years too late. Last spring, while Oliver Stone's rockudrama on Morrison's group the Doors was still in production, with Val Kilmer in the lead role, one possessive admirer etched this graffito into the Pere-Lachaise headstone: VAL KILMER...
...easy to like and hard to forget, and it shows that Mitchell -- for all her restless musical experimentation -- has an undiminished skill in navigating some of the deeper estuaries of the mainstream. The album summons fond memories of Mitchell's formative years -- the times of Woodstock and Court and Spark -- but it's not an exercise in nostalgia...
...pieces of the story have been told so often, in documentaries from Eyes on the Prize to Berkeley in the '60s, that a curtain of boredom threatens to fall even before the stage is set. Much of the material is distressingly familiar: the expected film clips (Martin Luther King, Woodstock, the Democrats at war in Chicago) annotated with the expected cliches ("The age of heroes was over...