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...when 726 million records and tapes were shipped to a rock-sotted world. The next year, the bottom fell out. Revenues plunged 10.2%. Not only was music caught in the general economic clinch; there was a feeling that everything had peaked, maybe even played itself out. Punk and new wave had created much press excitement, but never really broke through to a wide audience. Radio was hidebound by tightly formatted playlists: same sounds, same rhythms, in the same familiar rotations. Radio was the time-honored conduit to keep the music flowing, but it was becoming antiquated...
Yosh and Stan Shmenge: Power to the Punk People (Polka) (Yelte Velton). Actually, Eugene Levy and John Candy, two grandmasters of comedy from SCTV, doing some memorable demolition work on excesses of the video genre. The Shmenges are a couple of accordion yankers whose attempts to go current have the impact of Lawrence Welk playing a guest set with the Grateful Dead...
...wonder Leigh (Alexandra Paul), the prettiest girl on campus, is aswoon over Arnie. But she has tough competition in Christine. Such jealousy: when Leigh suggests that Arnie is too attached to his car, Christine forces the girl to choke, nearly to death, on some fast food. Such vindictiveness: three punk classmates of Arnie's push him around and Christine seeks them out and totals them. "Be careful what you call my car," Arnie warns his best friend (John Stock-well). "She's real sensitive...
...enough, leggy beauties now glide along sleek runways in Peking modeling the latest Pierre Cardin fashions. Not far away, well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin. Even in rustic glades, jeans-clad teen-agers blast out punk rock from ubiquitous cassette players. Free enterprise has also brought in its wake less innocent forms of freedom. Earlier this year, Story, a tabloid filled with titillating tales of concubines and libertines, was attracting 2 million readers around the country and, according to one Chinese press report, subscriptions from...
...replicate the excitement and force of argument of his more senior colleagues. Kunen's book is dull, probably duller than most of the corporate contracts Law School grads do write--simply because his two and a half years working in the Washington courts were particularly dull. A street punk arrested for smoking on a bus inherently carries less drama than a Claus von Bulow on trial for murder. A Dershowitz arguing constitutional law before the Supreme Court is naturally more interesting than this rookie public defender arguing in Juvenile Court over a street fight. Street fights can be powerfully addressed...