Word: punks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haircut--may not be quite as dangerous as he appears to be at first appalled-bourgeois glance. It is what made him a star almost two decades ago in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. And now that he's 41 and finally able to play grownup versions of the punk that was, it is what's making him--after a long season of neglect--a star again...
...Take punk rock. In the '70s, when it was born, it seemed to be the ultimate in musical rebellion. Punk was fast, aggressive rock performed by people who, through their raw sound and outrageous attire, were bent on making adults feel like out-of-touch geeks. The seminal British punk band the Sex Pistols mocked the monarchy and led fans in nihilistic chants of "No future," while their countrymen and contemporaries the Clash paid tribute in their music to the Sandinista rebels...
...younger generation is reviving punk, and it may be a particularly devilish form of revenge: Thanks for making me a child of divorce, Dad, now here's punk rock right back at you. This week the Berkeley, California-based punk trio Green Day, whose 1994 album, Dookie, sold 8 million copies, will release Insomniac, a short, sharp album of pop punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band...
...first 40 minutes of the hour and a half show, Smith read from Early Works 1970-1979. Opening with an early poem, "Ballad of a Bad Boy," her jagged voice revealed her hard-core side--the punk Smith, utterly defiant and deviant...
Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) is a homicide detective whose cynicism energizes rather than wearies him. He'll match his street smarts against any neighborhood punk's, and he's convinced that Strike must have murdered a rival drug dealer. The only other logical suspect is the kid's older brother Victor (Isaiah Washington), but that makes no sense; the man is working two jobs to support a wife and two kids, trying to engineer a respectable rise in the world...