Word: punks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a mark (sucker) got much for his money when he bought a ticket (50? for adults, 30? for kids) to Lew Alter's sideshow. It cost an extra dime to see the "Pickled Punk" (two questionable sets of Siamese twins preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named...
Individual Responsibility. Kennedy argues that such critics misunderstand the policeman's role. And he is angrily suspicious that sometimes they do not even understand their own. Says he: "They say some young punk is 'the product of his environment.' Well, who isn't? They say 'He suffered a traumatic experience in his youth.' Well, most of us have. They say 'He's the victim of a broken home.' Well, there are lots of kids from broken homes who didn't become vengeful and take it out on someone else...
...that she is going to have a baby. He is stunned. How will he ever be able to finish night school? And if he doesn't finish night school ... "I think you oughta go to this bachelor party tonight," says his wife after one look at the poor punk's face. "You oughta have a little fun for yourself. You work all day and go to school all night...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...