Word: punks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night." Reggie traces his color blindness to the atmosphere at home. "My father didn't, and still doesn't know what color is," says Jackson. "I grew up with white kids, played ball with them, went home with them, and more than one time beat up some punk trying to hurt them. I didn't know what prejudice was until I got to college and the football coach told me to stop dating white girls...
...much amused to see that The Crimson has again lived up to its high standards of Harvard journalism. Recalling the labeling of the H-R Republicans as "punk-ass Republicans," we now see The Crimson taking it upon itself to recommend that Mr. Richardson's invitation to speak on Class Day be withdrawn [Editorial, May 14]. That The Crimson should strain all bounds of common courtesy and decency in suggesting the withdrawal of an invitation (no matter to whom it was extended) reminds me of a very similar situation a few short months ago with the rescinding of the invitation...
Hughie, now being presented at the First Chicago Center in Chicago, is virtually a monologue, spoken like a Runyonesque incantation by Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
However, I was quite disturbed that some demonstrators complained about "punk-ass" Republicans, and that one taunted students leaving the Harvard club: "I can't stand seeing all these little Republicans running around...
While other songwriters are heading for country creeks and watermelon vines, Springsteen celebrates urban lowlife. His songs are ambitious mini-operas populated by punk saints and Go-Kart Mozarts in scenarios laced with schmalz and violence. His territory: the streets of Harlem, tenements, the funky world of the boardwalk's pinball way with its dusty arcades and machines. Bursting with words, images rush along in cinematic streams of consciousness...