Word: punks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLOT REVOLVES around Donny Dubrow, the proprietor of the resale ship, seemingly a one-time street punk now in his late 20s, eking out a marginal existence. Donny spends the opening minutes of the play expounding his philosophy of life and business to Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this...
...believe it or not, they don't exist any more). Until he resurfaces someday as a used-car salesman or something, all we are left with for the moment is the following compelling quote, which I gratefully lift from Caroline Coon's interesting new book "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion" (Hawthorn Books...
...prospect of some nine generations of Heathcliffs yet to come is horrifying, and not in a way Emily Brontë would admire. A Heathcliff in the factory, another in the trenches, yet another on the dole and, finally, a Heathcliff as the lead singer in a group of punk rockers: it will be too much. Heathcliff should remain in the state Bronte left him, buried under the moor while his spirit roamed, exactly where it belonged, around Wuthering Heights...
...truly a modernist product to use the old sales pitch: If you liked Waiting for Godot, you'll love this album. But if you are turned off by the idea of troubled monologues, spoken by a "70s Man" surveying the new vacancy, devoid of the anger that animates a punk like Johnny Rotten, then save your bread. "Q'est-ce que c'est Talking Heads" indeed...
Howie (19), Nick (15), and Billy (16) are the Blessed, a punk band which played its first gig on Christmas Day in New York. Before their debut performance, they had practiced a total of three times, once with no microphone and a cardboard box as drums. None of the band members owns equipment, except Howie, the bassist, and Nick picked up a guitar for the first time three weeks before their debut. They maintain that they are the real punks. "These people are too old to call themselves punks. If you're going to sing about being a teenager...