10 QUOTES WITH «SIXTIES»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
sixties.
I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIXTIES»
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sixties in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic and Other Satisfactions
Unlike their rock 'n' roll predecessors, many rock musicians of the mid-sixties came to consider themselves as artists, As self-conscious makers of a new sonic medium.Sixties Rockoffers a provocative look at these artists and their ...
2
Restaging the
Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies
The essays follow a three-part structure that first provides a historical overview of each group’s work, then an exploration of the group’s significant contributions to political theater, and finally, the legacy of those contributions.
James Martin Harding, Cindy Rosenthal, 2006
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Kennedy and the Promise of the
Sixties
A thought-provoking combination of political, cultural, and social history paints a vivid portrait of American life in the early sixties, when John F. Kennedy was president, revisiting the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the Women's ...
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The Rise of the
Sixties: American and European Art in the ...
Thomas Crow's analysis of the art of the 1960s remains as fresh as ever as he expertly follows the broad range of artists working in Europe and America in the stormy years of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the ...
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Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the
Sixties
A comprehensive history of the Earthworks movement provides an in-depth analysis of the forms that initiated Land Art, profiling top contributors and achievements within a context of the social and political climate of the 1960s, and noting ...
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Everyday Fashions of the
Sixties: As Pictured in Sears Catalogs
Catalog illustrations show what American men, women, and children wore during the 1960s, including hats and shoes, suits and dresses, from lingerie and playclothes to bridal ensembles.
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The
Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, ...
Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy.
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Things: A Story of the
Sixties
Two trailblazing novels by Georges Perec, Things: Jerome and Sylvie, the young upwardly mobile couple, lust for the good life.
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Please Please Me :
Sixties British Pop, Inside Out:
Sixties ...
Drawing his interpretation of the processes at work during this musical revolution into a wider context, Thompson unravels the musical change and innovation of the time with an eye on understanding what traces individuals leave in the ...
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The
Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style
The Sixties takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes history, architecture, art, political science, and journalism.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIXTIES»
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sixties is used in the context of the following news items.
Adopted in Sixties Scoop, man comes to gathering hoping to meet …
Connecting Our Spirits is aiming to bring together indigenous people that were adopted in what has become known as the Sixties Scoop. For Prince, he is ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
Adam West Batmobile from classic Sixties show goes to auction for …
The original Batmobile built for the cult 1960s TV show starring Adam West has gone up for sale. The gadget-packed vehicle was built in just three weeks before ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
'Sixties Scoop' haunts aboriginal survivors: Editorial
Manitoba became the first province to apologize to its aboriginal people for the “Sixties Scoop” – the forced removal of native children from their homes to grow ... «Toronto Star, Jun 15»
Turning back time: Coleen Rooney launches Sixties-inspired …
Seemingly taking her inspiration from current season trends, Coleen's SS15 line has a strong Sixties feel - a style that dominated the AW14 runways. Full of short ... «Evening Standard, Jan 15»
CNN To Follow 'The Sixties' Docu-series With 'The Seventies'
After finding success with a documentary series chronicling the 1960s, CNN is preparing a new one for 2015 that will examine the decade that followed. «Variety, Nov 14»
Biba founder and Sixties icon Barbara Hulanicki: 'Women have been …
The pair dressed actors, models, rock stars (Bianca Jagger, Twiggy, David Bowie, Mick Jagger) and ordinary working women during the Sixties and Seventies, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
SIMON HEFFER: Wish you were living in the Sixties? You must be …
Things must be even worse than I thought if one-third of my fellow Britons would, according to a poll, rather live in the so-called 'Swinging Sixties' than in the ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
Get Back: We wish it was the Swinging Sixties again
More than half the 2,000 people surveyed said the Sixties was the best decade for music, and the era of mini-skirt was also deemed best for fashion. Beatles hits ... «Express.co.uk, Sep 14»
Sixties Space Race airs Thursday
UPDATED: When “The Sixties” resumes on CNN, the documentary series will offer an exhilarating and fast-moving look at the U.S. space program during the ... «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 14»
The Space Race, Apollo 11 Star in CNN's 'The Sixties' Tonight
Editor's Note: CNN postponed the premiere of "The Sixties: The Space Race," previously scheduled for July 17, due to the loss of the Malaysian airliner in the ... «Space.com, Jul 14»
