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...straddle motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, the Road. In his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Entering the season, the Harvard field hockey team loomed as confident as Wyatt Earp with a pair of loaded six-shooters...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Continues To Struggle on the Road | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...seem fair to Williams, although scientists like the Academy of Natural Sciences' Wolberg fear it will send the costs of acquiring important fossils out of sight. In fact, another T. rex, known as Mr. Z Rex, is on the market for a staggering $12 million. The owners, says Jim Wyatt, a fossil dealer who is acting as broker, "based that price on the excitement generated by T. rexes and dinosaurs in general over the past few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DINOSAURS: WHO OWNS THE BONES? | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...field. Two weeks ago, FBI agents thwarted Montana ranchers who were going after a T. rex skeleton with a tractor, presumably to remove it from federal land and sell it on the open market. And the public's hunger for fossils isn't limited to dinosaurs. Wyatt recently brokered the sale, for $2,400, of some bits of fossilized Cro-Magnon man advertised over his fossilnet.com Website--a sale that was condemned by anthropologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DINOSAURS: WHO OWNS THE BONES? | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...women in their 50s and 60s launch new careers and rightly feel that youth--like the Star Wars Force--is still with them? "In the long run," economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, "we are all dead." But that long run is growing longer all the time. Thomas Wyatt offers a better motto for Americans as he writes his novel and raises his daughter in Mississippi. "I don't believe in aging," Wyatt says. "I just think there are multitudes of people who don't stop." Welcome aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGE IS NO BARRIER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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