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Workman portrays that mainstream distain with examples from the news and entertainment media.
These often illuminate the Beats and their influence better than the interviews themselves, though segments with such counterculture trendsetters as Michael McClure, Philip Glass, Ken Kesey, the late Jerry Garcia, and Timothy Leary also shed light on the central subjects and their time. But appearances by Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, and other present-day manifestations show the Beats' resurgence. This is something that's in the air. . . . The young people just turn to something else because the establishment is not particularly appealing to them at this point.