Like a thick stream of espresso pouring from a coffeemaker, signsof beat life are flowing again through America's culturalcountryside.
While not yet a full-fledged movement - like the '70s revival -the icons and styles of the generation that defined counterculture inthe late '50s and early '60s are flourishing in the worlds ofentertainment, food and, naturally, fashion.
From berets to Burroughs, coffee to Kerouac, goatees toGinsberg, poetry to Parker, beat cool is back.
Culture vultures cite two reasons for the resurgence. First,the beatnik hasn't been commercially co-opted in the same way asother anti-establishment personalities, like the '50s greaser …
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