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MOVIES: 'Leary's Dead' captures subversive force on film.
From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19970627
Author:Verniere, James
"Timothy Leary's Dead."
Not rated. At the Kendall Square Cinema.
Three stars
According to the Victorian essayist Thomas Carlyle, "the history of the world is the biography of great men."
"Timothy Leary's Dead," Paul Davids' documentary about the Harvard professor turned LSD prophet, proves that often in the 20th century, the operative words are "great" and "infamous."
Like the contents of a time capsule, Davids' affectionate film is a slice of history, leavened with nostalgia and an elegiac sense of the end of an era. Leary appears in the film as both the ...
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