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...says one Commerce Department economist, the nation has gone through "a punk quarter." Ice and snow so snarled transport, and the coal strike so curtailed electricity that national production showed little growth. Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc., calculates that real Gross National Product rose only 1.5% in the first quarter. With the snow melted and miners back at work, Eckstein thinks real G.N.P. will show a catch-up surge of 7.5% from April through June. For the year, real G.N.P. is still likely to rise around 4.5%. The trick will be to keep inflation from speeding...
Some have predicted punk's demise when monied success befalls the street rockers. But Joe Incagnoli doesn't think punks can be commercialized. Punk is much more than punk rock; it is lived by real people, not fabricated for sale. "Look where punk is coming from--who's going to listen to it? It's not really an age group, it's a culture...
...shows--on the faces of old men, in the dim solace of Eastie bars, in the punk energy--that there are people in this new age who are not part of the burgeoning wave of IBM and mechanization and mass transportation...
...important thing to remember about punk besides what it has thrived in diametric opposition to, is where it comes from. "Punks" like Ricky and the Invaders had to confront a lot of things that aren't easily found on manicured suburban lawns...
...Punk is a cultural thing. You can't take the music without taking the culture. If you live in a community that's crime and violence oriented, then you're going to appreciate punk a lot more...not because you're a criminal, but because there's nothing to do," he says...