Word: sheena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie might go on like Animal House at the secondary school level, but for Riff Randall (P.J. Soles), a blitzkrieg teenybopper who plays "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" over the school's public address system and lifts the whole movie out of its doldrums. Soles is the only real performer here--aside from the Ramones, of course, she plays the cheerleader-like Ramones groupie with enough cuteness and savvy to give her a fighting chance against the awkward screenplay...
...NEXT CUT, "Wanted Everthing," reinforces that punk tone. By this point the record has fallen into a pattern. The lyrics are a bit more laid back than the old favorites like "Teenage Lobotomy," or "Sheena is a Punk Rocker," (both from the rocket to Russia album), and the music is certainly slicker, but the basic feeling produced by any Ramones album is the same. After listening to one, with the volume dial set above '7', the only choice left for the night is between casual acts of petty destruction or serious chemical personality alterations...
...catch-all label for the energetic and varied kind of music that has emerged in recent months from some of the young American bands. The Ramones stick close to basic rock 'n' roll, but they get better all the time. Last week their latest single Sheena is a Punk Rocker made the Billboard Hot 100 chart-the first New Wave song to achieve that eminence...
...traumatic, with an adolescent hoodlum at her school. She barrages Catherine with demands, seeks protection against the outside world (through a pure vegetarian diet, through hypochondriac fantasies about death). Catherine "drinks a little" to ease the tension and chews raw hamburger, when Anna isn't looking. Ceil, "over-dressed Sheena of the blackboard jungle," wants Anna put away in a mental institution, though she's vulnerable (like all the characters in the play) since she stole the man Catherine wanted to marry and she made no sacrifices, as Catherine and Anna did, to take care of their now dead mother...