Word: punks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place," he says. "And once there, you're hooked. You discover one thing, and that's never enough; you're always pushing back, and then back beyond that. Everything underground seems to ask a question. I've seen this challenge change a motorcycle punk in Los Angeles into a Ph.D." A cave's size or depth is not what attracts the spelunker. "There can be a hole behind any rock," says Halliday, "and often we get as much satisfaction in going 400 feet as we do in a much more impressive distance...
...survive he moved to Hollywood and quickly established himself as a character actor in the tough-guy tradition-a kind of punk's Bogart. Today old movie buffs still see him on TV reruns, barking at his moll, Gloria Grahame, Vivian Blaine or Marie McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard...
...Booze." In the resort town of Arnolds Park, Iowa, the trouble began the minute the bars closed. Some 500 visiting youths poured, stumbled and fell out of taverns, chanting "We want booze! We want beer!" When a handful of police officers tried to quiet them down, someone shouted, "Hey, punk! We're going to take over the place!" and the riot was on. Armed with chunks of cement, rocks, beer bottles and splintered wood, they charged the cops, then smashed in the windows of cars and lighted a bonfire in front of one of the taverns. Police...
...rather the audience supplies the message. When Peter's father refuses hem $200 bail and lets him cool off for a night in jail, parents in the theatre break into spontaneous applause; just what the young punk needs! Teenagers, certain that it's just what he doesn't need, hoot...
...good he will be as a pastor. "If he's a successful businessman, he's likely to do pretty well in the ministry," says Methodist Minister Charles Merrill Smith, author of the recent How to Become a Bishop Without Being Religious. "If he's a punk businessman, he's likely to be a pretty punk minister...