Word: skinheaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl and her friend, the shoes are an event. They fall about each other, laugh and shiver, hold one another. When they've finished they bum Djakarta cigarettes from a nearby skinhead. The girl turns back to me, looking bored. Her eyes, brown and indolent, hover above and beyond, taking in the passersby, the shopfronts, the traffic, her friends...
Across the Square two kids with spiked hair slap each other in the face, playfully. A skinhead behind me taps me on the shoulder...
...They're pretty funny," he says, growing quiet. I tell him about the time I saw a kid hurt himself doing a stage dive in New Orleans. Stage diving involves jumping head first from a concert stage onto a crowded dance floor. The skinhead laughs, not cruelly...
...turn back to the skinhead and ask him if he thinks the great punk bands are dead...
...ceremonies were done with crisp military punctilio-which was not the way that Viet Nam went at all. The men in the honor guard wore dress uniforms and skinhead haircuts and composed their young faces into masks of abstracted obedience. Like robots suffering an obscure sorrow, they carried the casket of the new Unknown Soldier, the one from Viet Nam. They laid him to rest last week at Arlington National Cemetery beside those from the two World Wars and Korea...