
Sicily, 1973, a hot day. Sixteen year old Franco Merli is pumping gas.
Sicily, 1973, a hot day. Sixteen year old Franco Merli is pumping gas.
The first ever performed piece considered contact improvisation was danced by Oberlin College students in 1972.
“She was 85 pounds of pigtailed détente, flipping her way into the American consciousness.”
Caption: “If government can legislate against drugs, may it some day require people to take them?”
Anne Briggs, ballad singer, cult figure of ‘60‘s and ‘70s folk scene, was a teenage runaway.
Aramco Brats, the expatriate children of employees of Saudi Aramco oil company, (which was estimated in 2005 to be the world’s most valuable company) are a “third culture” group — think military brats, missionary kids — defined by their bi-cultural identity formed by living a not quite suburban American lifestyle in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, a province whose lands are more than half the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert — sand and wind.
In 1978, Nancy Jo Sales was a lonely 13-year-old in Coral Gables, Florida with an unlikely pen pal, a 42-year-old filmmaker named Woody Allen.
The world is your stretching mat! Students at Sangamon State University touch their toes and reach for the sky in Marian Levin’s Movement Class.
80 Blocks From Tiffanys is a 1979 documentary by Gary Weis following the lives of two gangs in the South Bronx, the Savage Nomads and Savage Skulls.
In 1976, George Plemper took a position teaching science at a school in Thamesmead, London.