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...time. It was refreshing to see the "old boys," the kids who everyone thought had all the advantages, climb out of their BMWs and hold their ground against the tough guys from across the Rivah--you know, the kind of guys who say, "What the----are you looking at, punk?" if they think you're staring at them in a bar. The setting was also refreshing. It was fitting that such a great athletic moment for Harvard would take place away from the University and its "convenient" attitude towards sports...
This sort of court behavior, also indulged in by John McEnroe and Hie Nastase, is what kindergarten teachers call "age inappropriate." It is punk tennis, the transformation of a formerly pristine game into the moral equivalent of roller derby. The spectacle is symptomatic of something that has befallen the American's idea of how one ought to behave. What would once have been intolerable and impermissible public conduct has now become commonplace. If it is not exactly accepted, then at least it is abjectly and wearily endured...
...couple of years ago it would have been ludicrous to describe the music of the Clash in such terms; a tight, angry punk band, they merely translated blunt, explicit feelings of political frustration into bracing, furious music. The first Clash album (released as the band's second record in the U.S.) spit out all subtlety, and the second deliberately sidestepped...
London Calling radiates assurance--musical assurance that this so-called punk band can play any kind of music it chooses, and assurance of a larger sort, that the further the world sinks into confusion the closer it will come to revival. The very energy of most of the songs on the album belies the sense of entropy conveyed by a song like "London Calling." The Clash have taken popular music and used it to give frenzied life to Bakunin's maxim, "The lust to destroy is a creative lust." They have elevated their music to the point where such grand...
...became almost as conventional as the Great White Way itself, and nearly as expensive, so much so that a new term and class of theater, "Off-Off-Broadway," emerged. Save for disco, popular music spawned nothing as revolutionary as acid rock and electronic music had been; soul, reggae and punk rock were all, at best, footnotes, not the main text. So-called "new wave" has the potential to become a significant trend, but hasn't yet spawned the lifestyle disco...