Volume 27, Number 17 · November 6, 1980
Seize the Day
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
by Abbie Hoffman
G. P. Putnam's/Perigee Books, 304 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Soon to be a major motion picture let's hope, for now it is a minor book. Oh Abbie, Abbie, all who lived through the Sixties will neither forget you nor be able to recompense you for your enraged nuttiness. You were the Street Groucho, you could kill 'em by kiddin' 'em, and when the rest of us, as angry as we were impotent, could do nothing but chew carpets and bubble and pop sanguinary fantasies, you injured our common adversaries with jokes. You even took the outward signs of our impassioned powerlessness, the four-letter cuss words with which we reviled our elected magistrates in private, and showed us how they could be used as darts on these same men in public.
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