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...punkster kids screamed, the swingers and students shuffled, and the geriatrics in the back tapped their feet. But everybody danced-awkwardly at first, heartily in the high-powered middle, frantically at the passionate encore. When the chaos was over, the sisters performed a silky version of the Hank William Sr.'s classic "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." With the departure of the Nields from the stage, the tie holding the crowd together loosened, and the audience separated again into their different categories...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Nields | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...wonder why anyone else would. Disturbing Behavior, directed by The X-Files' David Nutter, has a Stepford-teens premise with slacker appeal (all the well-behaved kids with good grades have been lobotomized on the say-so of their evil parents), and Holmes looks terrif as a Draculette punkster (nose ring, bicep tattoo, a swath of bare midriff). But the film goes haywire with torture scenes reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. Which makes this a clockwork lemon. Halloween: H20, directed by Dawson's Creek's Steve Miner from a story idea by Williamson, sends Jamie Lee Curtis once more against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Class Of '98 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...still isn't interactive. MTV may soon be involved in the technology. But a few artists -- such as Billy Idol, the British punkster whose first band was named (remember?) Generation X -- are already living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Goes Interactive | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and a wayward daughter to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 18, 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and a wayward daughter to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 4, 1989 | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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