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The cult-classic screenings grew from backyard movie nights into a monthly immersive experience featuring singalongs, props, call-backs, drag queens, and more.
Fashion designer Mary Quant, the style queen of Britain's Swinging Sixties who popularised the miniskirt, died on Thursday aged 93, her family said, prompting a flood of tributes. But there is no doubt that without Quant, the mini would not have become an icon of 1960s youth rebellion.
and there was a backlash to it. politicians like nixon and reagan denounced the radical youth culture of the time. and yet that culture has proved deeply influential and lasting. in his biography of steve jobs, the author ties the entrepreneurial spirit of silicon valley in the seths to the same spirit of youth rebellion. i do wonder whether american culture today retains the elements that made it so disruptive in the 1970s. whether it s anger, often on the popular stripe, it s the kind of nostalgic rage that fueled nixon and reagan, a surge that would take america back, not forward. still, one has to marvel at america in the 1970s, the world s richest and most powerful country that somehow retained the capacity for massive restlessness, descent,