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Word: punk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A -some punk burg") has returned to his fleabag hotel one night in 1928, after a five-day mourning binge. Ostensibly, he is grieving for Hughie, the recently deceased night clerk, but actually he grieves for himself. Hughie was Erie's false mirror image, the man who gave him the confidence to see himself as he is not. Hughie was the heaven-sent sucker who believed that Erie was the lovemaster of Ziegfeld Follies girls, that Erie beat the "bangtails," the cards and the dice, and hobnobbed with big-time Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Playwright as Hedgehog | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...punk killers not assassins! Ah the Disney dinosaur's light laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Essence | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

monster and child, punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Essence | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...WOMAN. Man's inhumanity is the theme of this squalid but often hilarious Italian comedy about a punk promoter and his wife, a girl covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Wellington (Sammy Davis) is a Harlem nobody who wants to be a Big Town somebody, a punk with a yen for a penthouse and all the other Cadillacto-caviar goodies. His aims would immediately classify him as the crassest sort of bourgeois philistine if the musical were not cloaked in the topical sanctity of racial protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blues for Mr. Wellington | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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