Word: biker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silk and, for the coming season, leather that seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions of them. Even her dressier duds have the aged-in feeling of favored sportswear. Maybe better than anyone else just now, Hamnett captures the roughed-up elegance of the everyday. Everything she makes is a little playful, like her swimsuits, and as homey as a pair...
...real crowd-pleaser is Spike Lee himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful...
...wait. There are still a lot of tricks to be learned. Any biker worthy of his wheels knows the "Vander roll," a forward somersault over the handlebars as you pull the bike along behind you. Then there is the "cherry picker," in which you lock the brakes and bounce on one wheel as if the bike were a pogo stick...
...somebody else a ramp for the daredevils to soar above, and the showboating begins. Says Dave Vanderspek, 22, the leader of the Curb Dogs Club: "Instead of getting attention by breaking windows, now I have people screaming for me when I'm rippin'." Adds a more diffident biker: "It's a good way to meet girls...
...sponsored by Oxfam America and Save the Children, the group collected enough money to fund eight or ten small scale self-help development projects, said biker Marianne Kelly, who graduated from Rutgers in June...