Word: punkish
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...Caretaker's plot centers around a bum named May Davies (Faith Justice) who is taken in by one of the sisters. Aston (Sandra Shipley) who collects junk and seems slightly moronic. The other sister, Mick (Pamela Dritt Knickrehm) is a highly volatile punkish woman who is dissatisfied with her sister's ineffectuality in making only one of their large house habitable. The bum works her way into the sisters' lives and gradually becomes more selfish and demanding of the sisters as time passes. Since nothing really happens in the women's lives even after the bum moves in, the play...
...have turned out that way. In the intervening decade, there has been a riotous growth of deliberately clumsy, punkish figurative painting in America: paintings that ignore decorum or precision in the interest of a cunningly rude, expressionist-based diction. Quite clearly, Guston is godfather to this manner, and for this reason his work excites more interest among painters under 35 than that of any of his contemporaries. He would never have gained this following had he stayed abstract, and it is sadly ironic that he died last year, at age 66, shortly after the current retrospective opened in San Francisco...
Mailer is the last and no doubt the most intelligent participant in the complicated travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...
...naked, exhausted, once elegant chamber--three punks snickered down on their joint. "We don't know much about Jimmy Cliff," one yellow-suspendered and hairy-lipped kid said, "but we like him." And at that moment last Saturday night Jimmy Cliff was giving himself to an audience neither young, punkish, nor unfamiliar with his music, but which also had a blind faith in the reggae singer. From his first number, Fundamental Reggae, the house was alive and poised on the brink of each high-throated, smooth verse, silent in the lyric wave of his high-pitched voice, screaming...