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Most of what Frith has to say of interest is lost in pointless self-indulgence. Witness this description of the groups of the "punk vanguard...
Populist assumptions of transparency, Subcultural identity? Does Frith mean to say that the punks (The "punk vanguard," that is) played loud, nasty music? If not, exactly what does he mean...
...randomly in the tremendous spaces. But out in the middle of nowhere the rancher will come upon an oil "location" that he has leased to drillers. The work is deafening, unclean and, of course, extremely profitable. Oilworkers seem weirdly surly and uncommunicative for this part of the country, like punk rockers, Ahab's harpooners, aliens. The chemical "slush" from the hole in the ground gushes up into a loathesome open pit lined with a sort of Hefty...
Fischer's stores provide all those components, along with such trendy items as knickers and-for the summer-miniskirts. (A caution to the intrepid: there is as yet no hard and fast policy about this, but it is strongly recommended that-except at a punk surprise party-minis never be worn with support stockings.) Says Marilyn Lane of Washington's New Conceptions maternity boutique, "Whatever fashion is In for the everyday woman is what the pregnant woman wants to wear...
...Berlin prostitute and heroin addict that appeared in the newsmagazine Stern. It is a tale to blanch the parental conscience, for here are children barely in their teens who whore, steal, shoot up and, too often, drop dead. Chic-pretty, lipsticked and long-haired, dressed in Annie Hall punk, negotiating puberty on stork legs, Christiane (Natja Brunkhorst) is a caricature of cover-girl womanhood. She comes home from a night of dance and dope, wipes the, blood off her face and goes to sleep with her kitten. She is a young adult who wants a childhood, who waits...