Word: woodstocks
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...those who attended the original Woodstock, it was possible to imagine that they were present at history's largest convergence of the privileged few, the hip minority. Of course, they saw it as the birth of Woodstock Nation, a giant step toward the hipping of the world at large...
...going to be harder to think of next week's festival that way. Though the crowds will come determined to break whatever mold they are poured into, it won't be easy to escape the feeling that this time Woodstock will be history's largest convergence of the mass market. What else can you say about a gathering of the tribes that already has its own official refrigerator magnet, to say nothing of its own condom and kaleidoscope? Whose organizers . test-marketed the proposed lineup of bands to see which names would get maximum audience response? Which will be brought...
...Woodstock '94 becomes a triumph of salesmanship over spirit, blame it on the curious times in which we now live. Hipness has become a national paradox, a special condition almost everyone seems to aspire to. And one that, thanks to a lot of shrewd marketing, almost everyone can fancy having achieved...
...boomers armored themselves in hip -- after substituting rock for jazz -- in the hope, perhaps, that the right attitude and the right wardrobe might protect them from mortality itself as they moved through the years. By the time the boomers got to Woodstock, an event that immensely overran the commercial calculations that spawned it, it was possible to believe an entire countercultural universe was being born...
...adjusting his silver wig. Through most of the '60s, Andy Warhol had epitomized an arctic cool so detached it could give equal attention to soup cans and electric chairs. But Warhol's indifference was incomplete. There was never an artist more starstruck and money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur...