
The Wave Broke: How the Movies of the Early 1970s Crystallized the Cynical Individualism of the ‘Me Decade’
Late in Hunter S. Thompson’s 1971 lysergic travelogue “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” the writer experiences something of a psychic vision of the end of the 1960s, a time he describes as “riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave” that led toward …