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...even then all of this extremes, violent or boyish, flash out of those same, perpetually half-shut eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face hardening now into some sort of death mask. Nicholson doesn't try to play Chambers as the twenty-three year old punk Cain envisioned. Instead he slouches around like a bored satyr. He seems to revel in his decay, in his unnerving ability to play an utterly reptilian Don Juan...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

...forces threatening to pull Sally down are represented by her former husband Dave-played by a young Canadian actor named Robert Joy, who is the punkest punk to show up on the screen in a long time-and her hugely pregnant sister (Hollis McLaren), who is now living with him and spouting flower-child irrelevancies. Dave has in hand a stash of cocaine he has scored off the Mob, which is in hot pursuit. If the drugs, and this rotten kid, represent danger, they also offer opportunity. The coke is fungible: it can be converted into a ticket to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boardwalk | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Bakshi has taken on more than a lusting feline or a surreal novel, and tackles pop music of the twentieth century. That he seeks unity and tries to place it on the screen is admirable, but his attempt to attribute such various forces as blues and punk under one man's family is lunacy...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: American Popaganda | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

Daniel Bricklin, 29, and Robert Frankston, 31, a team of new-wave composers, have penned a dynamite disc that has grossed an estimated $8 million. It is not a punk-rock smash, but an unmelodic magnetic number called VisiCalc, the bestselling microcomputer program for business uses. The featherweight sliver of plastic is about the size of a greeting card, but when it is placed in a computer, the machine comes alive. A computer without a program, or "software," is like a $3,000 stereo set without any records or tapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smash Hit of Software | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...other primary vein of imagistic painting in these surveys (particularly the Whitney's) is a vague catch-all for anything reminiscent of punk or other nouveau-wavo aggressions. "Dumb art," it is conveniently called, and some of it is very dumb indeed-but not all. One notable exception is the work of a precocious 25-year-old named Jedd Garet, whose paintings seem to take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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