Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Division on its vast post west of Colorado Springs. There, Major General Rogers is urging all of his subordinates to help heal "our self-inflicted wounds" and remove "the harassing burrs under the saddles of our soldiers." Today's youth, contends Rogers, "want to participate in decisions; they are curious. They want to know why, and they are not satisfied with answers based on faith or 'because we've always done it that way'?and I respect them...
Tuttle holds a city health license, and his place is outfitted with sterilizers and examining tables; the overall effect is more that of a doctor's office than a tattoo parlor. The curious are permitted to look on as Tuttle imprints hands, forearms, manly chests or shoulders. But some 40% of his customers are women, and when a lady wants a tattoo in an intimate spot, Tuttle asks her to bring a friend as a witness−for his own protection−and closes the door...
Flood tells his story from the point of view of an observer watching the Americans in action. Considering the nature of this war, that is a rather curious perspective: Flood sees lots of napalm-he even flies on the fighter planes that drop it-but there is not one word about the burning flesh, the terror, and the grotesque horror of a napalm explosion. Oh no, Flood instead rhapsodizes about the sleek shiny pointed bomb casing the napalm is dropped in. A book about the Vietnam war might be expected to include a little discussion of the National Liberation Front...
...from everywhere-especially from such fretfuL or dissent-ridden groups as the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. One reason behind the search for individualism is that youth in America, as elsewhere, has become less interested in rock as a mind-blowing communal expression and more curious about what individual musicians may have to say. What the rock world seems to need right now, therefore, is a high-talented, low-keyed, protest-free approach to life and sound that will appeal equally to the flower child in the young and the gardener of verses...
...possibly, because of his fine eve for visuals, a better one. He does champion such out-of-current mood directors as Peckinpah and Renoir; he is generally concerned with instituting fashion according to his own "impassioned" integrity rather than merely following the fashionable (though his recent 2001 recantation was curious indeed). With such developments as his labeling of Fellini as the "Busby Berkeley of metaphysics," and a latent inclination towards admirable historical research and social criticism, he seems to be mellowing into adult responsibilities. However, Confessions of a Cultist, containing reviews written between 1955 and 1969, displays the attitudes...