Word: punks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racial integration in the underworld. The hero (Harry Belafonte, who is also the producer) is a singer in a Harlem hotspot who signs on for a bank robbery to pay off his bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he discovers that another member of the gang is a paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff'ent because...
Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And no one can understand...
Impressed by his flair for the grand, vote-getting gesture, a dissident minority persuades the hero to give the big punk (Nehemiah Persoff) in the parent union a run for his expense money. But just before election time, the cops find out about those watches. So the jig's up? Nonsense. The election is won. What decent, self-respecting union man. the hero blandly wants to know, could deny his vote to a fellow who had stolen $750,000 from some great big impersonal insurance company, and then turned every last penny of it over to the working...
...trend, maybe a revolution," marveled Barber Virgil Sherman Holycross, 59, patient servant of teen-age fads for 35 years. "Maybe they all want to look like they're learning to build a Sputnik." "It's sort of like a compromise between being a punk and an egghead," explained Central High Senior Larry Cornine, 17. "Personally I don't want to look like either." But Forrest Reno, 19, recent ducktail convert to the Princeton cut, plays it cool. "How else can you comb your hair with the palm of your hand." he asks, "and have it look...
...moment, for example, the audience is snickering at a dumb chorine, and the next it is staring aghast at her lifeless body in a bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes in the moviegoer's face like a ripe tomato-quite a bit of business in fast motion...