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  1. Joe Eszterhas _ Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

    They were hometown hippies who primped in the cracked mirror of their egos and saw themselves as more intelligent, more humane, more real than their plastic deodorized elders. They were the victims of a freeze-dried generational racism which would not forgive their long loathsome hair and their scuzzy tramp-clothes. So now, cast in a psychodrama partly of their own design, they grew their hair even longer and let their jeans get grubbier. They asked for it: the audience reaction was confirmation of all their halfbaked theories. They screamed "Fuck You!" with every gesture and found applause in the cops' teeth-gnashings and housewives' cringings.
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  2. Joe Eszterhas _ Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

    EGAD was a coffeehouse, built for the kids of Harrisonville by a middle-aged Jesus Freak. Its letters meant "Everybody Give A Damn!
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  3. Joe Eszterhas _ Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

    Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
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  4. Joe Eszterhas _ Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

    They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their teenage lives.
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  5. Joe Eszterhas _ Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

    Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.
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