CULTURE

FROM AN AMERICAN STORY: “We drove down Highway One past the pine forests that grew in Point Lobos; then the trees cleared, and the road paralleled the ocean, shortly to start a steep climb winding up the mountain. The hills were brown, dried by the summer sun. Mountain lions still lived there, I was told. […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) FROM AMERICAN STORY: “…The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, the Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 […]

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If I thought about it, it seemed clear that elements of my generation had always been singled out for disapproval, going back to the birth of rock and roll and the invention of the teenager. The first wave of disapproval had been at “juvenile delinquents” (who scared me, actually. Not that I actually saw any; […]

If I thought about it, it seemed clear that elements of my generation had always been singled out for disapproval, going back to the birth of rock and roll and the invention of the teenager. The first wave of disapproval had been at “juvenile delinquents” (who scared me, actually. Not that I actually saw any; […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NxGO2lx-A0&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. If I thought about it, it seemed clear that elements of my generation had always been singled out for disapproval, going back to the birth of rock and roll and the invention of the teenager. The first wave […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSes1bQjKM&feature=youtube_gdata_player Nobody would understand this better, nor use it more to their advantage in that era, than Madonna. The number of seismic social and cultural shifts she somehow embodied reads like an inventory of the rift in the generations: from the Sixties’ spiritual quest for ”Further” and ”All You Need Is Love” to the Eighties’ […]

“With Pete Townshend at the wheel, the six-liter Mercedes was traveling up the Ml north of London at speeds approaching 130 miles per hour and never, it seemed to me, below 110. I watched from the rear seat as we overtook cars driving on the motorway as if they were parked. Townshend was talking animatedly […]