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===Media=== Popular films depicting the hippie ethos and lifestyle include ''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock]]'', ''[[Easy Rider]]'', ''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]'', ''[[The Doors (film)|The Doors]]'', ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'', ''[[Taking Woodstock]]'', and ''[[Crumb (film)|Crumb]]''. In 2002, photojournalist John Bassett McCleary published a 650-page, 6,000-entry unabridged [[slang dictionary]] devoted to the language of the hippies titled ''The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s''. The book was revised and expanded to 700 pages in 2004.<ref>McCleary, John Bassett. ''The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s'', Ten Speed Press, 2004. {{ISBN|1580085474}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Gates | first = David | title = Me Talk Hippie | newspaper = [[Newsweek]] | date = July 12, 2004 | url = http://www.newsweek.com/id/54372 | access-date = 2008-01-27 }}</ref> McCleary believes that the hippie counterculture added a significant number of words to the English language by borrowing from the lexicon of the [[Beat Generation]], through the hippies' shortening of beatnik words and then popularizing their usage.<ref>{{Citation|last=Merritt |first=Byron |title=A Groovy Interview with Author John McCleary |publisher=Fiction Writers of the Monterey Peninsula |date=August 2004 |url=http://www.fwomp.com/int-johnmccleary.htm |access-date=2008-01-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012103550/http://www.fwomp.com/int-johnmccleary.htm |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}</ref> <!-- Please give sourced examples of Hippie vocabulary here. Words like "grok", etc. --> <gallery widths="200px" heights="130px"> File:Ken Westerfield 1977.jpg|As a hippie, [[Ken Westerfield]] helped to popularize the alternative sport of [[Frisbee]] in the 1960sβ1970s, that has become today's [[Flying disc games|disc sports]] File:1981 People Pix.jpg|Hippies at the [[Nambassa]] 1981 Festival in New Zealand File:Goa Gil LHS.jpg|[[Goa Gil]], original 1960s hippie who later became a pioneering electronic dance music DJ and party organizer, here appearing in the 2001 film ''[[Last Hippie Standing]]'' </gallery>
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