Barbarella

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Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968

1. Thomas Haroldson “Barbarella” is a gas. No doubt about it. In fact, it is one of the most enjoyable and imaginative movies ever made.

Poems for people who don’t read poems

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Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968

a review of Poems for people who don’t read poems by Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Atheneum Press, NYC. 1968. $2.95. 177 pp.

How does a Radical Read Art?

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Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969

I. There is a Saying: “Good writing is counter-revolutionary. According to Ellen Willis (who did a piece on the Chicago Pig Riot in New American Review No. 6) good writing ”is a reminder that literature is basically an activity of …

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Helping an old woman, age 90, turn on

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Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969

Age 90 is very different. A dusty journey has been traveled, a time-tunnel has been penetrated. Her 20th Century is a vast prismatic blur, a fantasy in which some parts hold up for the Truth.

Weird and Funny Words

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Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969

It is a good time in American history to go back to roots, to “get down,” to forget speeches and lectures and concentrate on The Word.

The ultimate phallic journey

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Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969

1. Andy Warhol would have given his right arm (and probably his left buttock) to have created that epically-dull 2-1/2 hour underground film (starring Neil “Jack” Armstrong and Edwin “Archie” Aldrin) that was shown on American TV under such unusual …

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Superkid

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Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969

a review of The Assault on Childhood, Ron Goulart, Sherbourne Press, Los Angeles, 1969, $6.50

Works go Blimp and Gothic, Ltd.

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Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969

YARGH! STOMP! GIGGLE…WOW! SLAM! KILK! SIGH…POOT! RRRRIP! THUD! SPOOOM! AHHHH. BONK! AAAGGHH! MUNCH! CHOFF! HEH, HEH, SPLUT! KLAT! ZZZZZZZZ, HAR, HAR, HEE, HAW, ZNIF! YUMPH! Gothic Blimp Works is unbelievably good poetry and such (SLAM!)…I mean things is comin’ to …

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The Big Party

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Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

I. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish’s original monkey dinner was held at 19 Gramercy Park in New York in 1908, wherein Mrs. Fish invited the “haute monde” of her day, according to writer Tom Wolfe, to a dinner in honor of the …

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Notes on a Greek festival

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Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968

It is ironic that the recent “Freedom Festival” in Detroit was celebrated primarily in Detroit’s Grecian community.

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