Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg first raged into public view in 1956 with Howl, a profane tirade that railed against a conformist society and dealt, rather graphically, with his homosexuality. In the '60s and '70s, he was active in both the hippie and antiwar movements. His poetry prefigured punk and New Age, encompassing protest and psychedelics, drawing inspiration from yoga, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, the Torah and fellow poets like William Carlos Williams...
Bono: A lot of what's called rock these days does seem like folk music. It does seem absurd that there are punk rockers in the late '90s rebelling against their parents with their parents' music. I can't quite get my head around that. It's "Dad, you suck--can I borrow your Sex Pistols album?" White-bread rock has, for me, lost its sense of adventure and seems very tired in comparison...
...surprised to find it done at all." In fact, most of Necessary Madness is done very well indeed, at least within the restrictions of its genre. Crowell keeps her plot moving briskly along, and her narrator gets off some good lines. Looking back on her teenage fling with punk fashions, she notes, "I graduated second in my high school class, which meant that I had the distinction of being the school's first purple-haired salutatorian...
...took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk and heavy metal. With his first two records, Portrait of an American Family and Smells Like Children, Manson quickly built a passionate following. It includes his father Hugh, who says he loves his son's music because it encourages kids to think for themselves...
...Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter. Of course, there are also the Godfathers: John Tuzio, leader of the Mafia and Jack Tierney, Paddy's boss, the sadistic Vietnam war hero turned Irish mob boss...