Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's end the Stratosphere staff--some of them designated in corporate lingo as redog ("Roving Entertainers Delighting Our Guests")--was negotiating the cable-strewn floors. In Roxy's Diner, a '50s-style eatery, punk and geek waiters were studiously spinning yo-yos and polishing their patois ("neat," "ugly stick," "chick" and the immortal "your mother"). Says the Stratosphere's president David Wirshing: "No one's ever built a tower in conjunction with a facility like this before. There'll be all sorts of unknowns, and a few inevitable hitches." He might take heart from the notoriously ragged 1993 opening...
...seduced at 30,000 ft. But when she leaves, he goes amiably nuts, brushing the fur of his stuffed animals, talking to a bar of soap ("You've lost a lot of weight--you need more self-confidence!"). He's just the lost soul for a fast-food cook (punk pixie Faye Wang) who sneaks into his flat each day for some erotomaniacal housecleaning. It's a match made in Hong Kong heaven...
...novel from her with one eye on what they know of her unlikely history: a West Indian black, raised on Antigua, who--deep breath here--left home at 17 to escape a turbulent relationship with her mother, went to New York, dyed her hair blond in a brief punk phase, fell in with literary types at the New Yorker and became one of its star writers (though she has recently severed her ties with the magazine and publically criticized editor Tina Brown...
...SKUNK ANANSIE Paranoid & Sunburnt (Epic/One Little Indian). This British quartet, one of the few hard-rock bands fronted by a black woman, boasts a scaldingly bold sound, mixing chunks of punk, bits of R. and B. and even a dash of gospel in its joyously fierce debut album...
...Lane). Seems McCall is her child by a previous liaison. Seems Hill has seen too many movies in which young western gunmen are anachronistically portrayed as if they were modern juvenile delinquents with a large yellow streak running down the center of their characters. Seems too that giving the punk something like a coherent motivation--the only one in the movie--goes against the anarchic mood of the piece...