Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind me, two female devotees--one in flowing yellow Indian robes, the other in the regulation spiky bleached hair, plaid flannel shirt and black cotton tights of the Cambridge punk scene--linked arms, and twirled happily to the music...
...lifestyle, it was truly gone. No more innocuous fun--in the '80s, fun means the hard stuff. Cocaine, crack, jogging and worse. The Village people, one of the founding groups of disco, deserted to punk (a self-respecting musical from that wouldn't have them). Olivia Newton-John deserted to the '80s fad, phys-ed. She and the country took their energetic dance from the dance floor...
...ride through Wonderland. The direction is bumpy, but the plot, from Anne Holden's novel The Witnesses, is reverberant in twists and implications. Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) is having an affair with his boss's wife Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert). Through her lover's window she sees a punk (Brad Greenquist) attack a young woman, Denise (Elizabeth McGovern). To protect Sylvia, Terry tells the police he witnessed the assault. But the road to jail is paved with good intentions. Soon Terry is a fugitive, and both Sylvia and Denise are prey to a wily killer...
Experimental bands keep rock and roll moving forward In the late sixties and early seventies, "art bands" like The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, and David Bowie emerged. Then punk rock rejuvenated the private angst of teenagers across the western world and rock saw the eruption of new and even more apocalyptic bands such as Joy Division, the Talking Heads ("Remain in Light" era), and especially Bauhaus, led by Peter Murphy...
...aspects interest her. She tracks them down in the street and induces them to pose for portraits in her studio. She never chooses subjects with "capped-looking teeth," who display themselves as if their faces were "pictures already, finished, varnished, impermeable." Instead, she prefers odd-looking men, like a punk artist with an orange Mohawk, one of her most inspired characterizations. Yvonne suspects that he is a "spray-painter, the kind that goes around at night and writes things on brick walls, things like CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUCKS and SAVE SOVIET JEWS! WIN BIG PRIZES!" But she is attracted...