Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular ideologies of youth--punk negativism, resurgent capitalism, and new age intuitionism--all are inward-looking philosophies, aspects of a narcissistic time. Reagan's impermeable sheen, his success through avoiding responsiblity for anything, has become something to strive...
Even the rebellions against this way of life are private ones. The phenomenal growth in mysticism and flamboyant "consciousness-raising" combines a desire for personal transformation and spiritual health, and a will to screen out the world with environmental music. It is the mirror image of the punk movement, which hopes not to change society, but to create a zone of destruction around the listener in assertion of his autonomy...
BEETLEJUICE The feel-weird movie of '88. Director Tim Burton's supernatural jape features comic-book ingenuity, a swell turn by Michael Keaton as a punk demon, and a delirious calypso sound track. Day-O will never sound the same...
...with a goofy, aw-shucks grin reminiscent of Warren Beatty's but adds the distinct nuance of a die-hard Bruins fan. Draped in a baggy sweatsuit and perpetually bouncing on the toes of his high-top sneakers, Ducey's Pendleton doesn't quite pull off the New Jersey punk of the script, but his portrayal of the native Boston variety is equally winning. There's something about a really thick Boston accent, liberally sprinkled with words like "dame" and "mug," that assures the audience they're dealing with a regular...
Morris Nagger does not understand why many Boston area shoppers are afraid to enter Central Square. "I'm not scared here at all, but when I go to Harvard Square, the punk hangout of Massachusetts, then I worry," says Nagger...