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Word: punks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Wanted: A Face to Hate | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Wanted: A Face to Hate | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '88: Cinema | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Heaven Sent | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Arnold M. Zipper, | Title: Old Square Goes Yupscale | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

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