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...saggy current Zeitgeist toward some more wired, more meaningful time. The '60s and '70s have attracted big cults, but to true devotees of deja voodoo, the golden age was the '50s. Survivors of that era rise from their golf carts and shout, "We don't need no stinkin' Woodstock! And Watergate nostalgia is for wonks! Listen, pal, I was a teenage teenager. I want the '50s -- Ike, Mad, duck and cover, the birth of rock 'n' roll. And films about teens in turmoil -- the cheaper and grungier the better...
...Woodstock '94 kicked off today with tens of thousands flocking to the three-day event in upstate New York. Some 180,000 scored the $135 tickets. Melissa Etheridge, Aerosmith, the Spin Doctors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend. One aspect of the original Woodstock threatens to repeat itself -- weather forecasters predict on-again off-again thunderstorms that would once again turn the fields of the 850-acre farm into...
...promoters prepare to celebrate a pseudo Woodstock, the very...
...pass since the Kennedy assassination; time for another round of J.F.K. reminiscences. D-day hits the / big five-oh; trot out the veterans and the homilies. We've commemorated the 25th anniversary of virtually every milestone of the '60s -- last month it was the moon landing; coming up next, Woodstock. Forrest Gump, the hit movie of the summer, leads baby boomers through a veritable highlight reel of their shared memories, from Elvis Presley to Vietnam...
...groups named in Rolling Stone magazine as the hot bands to watch this summer, three are mixed gender. And these groups are coming to a stage near you: the Australian band Frente! will be playing U.S. cities this August; Afrocentric rappers Arrested Development will be at Woodstock '94; and the alternative-rock bands Smashing Pumpkins and the Breeders are headlining this summer's touring Lollapalooza music festival...