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...them down in the street and induces them to pose for portraits in her studio. She never chooses subjects with "capped-looking teeth," who display themselves as if their faces were "pictures already, finished, varnished, impermeable." Instead, she prefers odd-looking men, like a punk artist with an orange Mohawk, one of her most inspired characterizations. Yvonne suspects that he is a "spray-painter, the kind that goes around at night and writes things on brick walls, things like CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUCKS and SAVE SOVIET JEWS! WIN BIG PRIZES!" But she is attracted by "the sullenness, the stylistic belligerence...
Born in Detroit, Jarvis moved with his family a year later to the tiny upstate New York village of Mohawk (current pop. 2,959). After graduating from Mohawk High School and receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Jarvis earned a master's degree in engineering from Northeastern University in Boston. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1969, became a specialist in tactical communications satellites at the Air Force Space Division in El Segundo, Calif., and rose to the rank of captain. During his time in the service...
...these groups is best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic characters. And up the boulevard rolls a procession of white stretch limos, trundling the show-biz glitterati (and their accountants and orthodontists) to West Hollywood...
...Mohawk sails through Mass. Ave. traffic on a skateboard. His T-shirt reads "Arm the Poor," and Paul Weller comes calling from the belly of a boom...
...broken cash register at distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister...