Word: boardwalk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While other songwriters are heading for country creeks and watermelon vines, Springsteen celebrates urban lowlife. His songs are ambitious mini-operas populated by punk saints and Go-Kart Mozarts in scenarios laced with schmalz and violence. His territory: the streets of Harlem, tenements, the funky world of the boardwalk's pinball way with its dusty arcades and machines. Bursting with words, images rush along in cinematic streams of consciousness...
Cafe life in the Square may not be any Paris in the twenties--rather it is a Boston brand of boardwalk watching, coffee sipping retreats from the Action that play at the cosmopolitan feeling of being above it all. The Pamplona (on Bow St. next to the Underdog) reverberates with the undertones of the heavies, of intellectual riffraff at its most sincere and heart of heart having it outs. Everybody eavesdrops, it is licensed voyeurism. The Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) is an outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca...
...years since Parker Brothers made Monopoly one of the nation's most popular indoor sports, the once sumptuous streets of Atlantic City, N.J., which gave their names to the Monopoly board, have considerably deteriorated. The famed Boardwalk offers little more than whirling dervish rides, shooting galleries and stomach-eroding refreshment stands. Two of the tackier streets in town are Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues-also the cheapest buys on the Monopoly board. Thus, as part of a $1,000,000 public works improvement program, Atlantic City's public works commissioner, Arthur W. Ponzio, proposed to change the names...
...Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps a harem of two, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), a juicy tart past her prime, and Jessica (Julie Anne Robinson), her puppet-like "stepdaughter." The four cavort from bisexual bedside to desolate beach and boardwalk. But their joyride is scarred by an undertone of tension as they blind themselves to the steady disintegration of their dream...
...Monopoly out there?" Jason Staebler asks his brother David from behind the bars of an Atlantic City jail. Now, nearly deserted in winter, long past its honky-tonk glory, Atlantic City survives like a huge, standing game board, residents and random vacationers wandering from Boardwalk to Park Place to Marvin Gardens like tokens moved at an idle throw of dice. It is simple enough, as the Staeblers will discover, to get out of jail. There is no way, though, out of the game...