Word: punk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FAHRENHEIT 451. Francois Truffaut's weirdly gay little picture has Hero Oskar Werner as a pyromaniacal punk who sincerely thinks that "books are just rubbish." Werner is unshakably believable, but Julie Christie, in the dual role of his dull wife and spirited woman who arouses his interest in books, strongly supports the suspicion that this actress cannot actually...
...Creep. Idiot. Nut. Fool. Punk. Dirty s.o.b." For five weeks, three defendants hurled those epithets at Pittsburgh Judge Albert A. Fiok. At times, they threatened his life. Determined to avoid any conceivable grounds for reversal by a higher court, Fiok took it all for the sake of "a fair and impartial trial." Some trial. In frontier days, the defendants would have been hanged on the spot...
...ground of "prejudicial publicity." When that failed, Mayberry scorned the trial as "comic opera," called the prosecutor "Gilbert" and the judge "Sullivan." "If I can't get my rights legally," Langnes shouted at the judge, "I'll have to blow your head off. You understand that, punk...
Truffaut's hero (Oskar Werner) is a member of the brigade, a pyromanic punk who sincerely believes that "books are just rubbish" and should be burned. After a hard day at the cultural crematorium, he cools off with tranquilizers, sits staring at the wall screen with his trank-tanked wife (Julie Christie), and sinks slowly into nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn...
...Jerome, Napoleon's youngest brother, a pretty-faced punk known as Fifi, was the black sheep of the family. At 21, when Napoleon balked at his marriage to a Baltimore heiress named Betsy Patterson, he blithely abandoned the girl-with child-and concluded an alliance with Catherine of Wurttemberg. As King of Westphalia, he employed so many mistresses and staged such lavish entertainments (among them an operetta performed stark naked) that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million...