Word: skinheaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother Ignacio, 26, who has the same job as his father. "But he said this place was too boring for him." He also wanted to emulate his eldest brother Juan, who had been in the Marine Corps. Two years ago, while still in school, Alex got a bootcamp-style skinhead haircut. Says Dinallo: "Alex's feeling was that the Marines were a No. 1 bunch of guys and that's where he wanted...
...Patrick White suggested that the wedding was "a kind of rosy women's weekly romance to lull the more soft-centered among us and distract us from reality." There was, however, no sense that anyone wanted to forget the country's troubles. Said Donald Williams, 18, a skinhead who came to London from his native Portsmouth to celebrate the nuptials: "I was standing next to a black, and when he cheered I said, 'You're my mate-but only for today, mark you.' " Rather it seemed that the country was, on this day of symbolic...
...event of the year" by some hyperbolic press bulletins. The film details the rise and fall of a London band (bearing many resemblances to X-Ray Spex), with street-found star Hazel O'Connor as leader of the idealistic group. She self-promotes on subways, takes on gigs at skinhead pubs and political rallies, and ends up with record contract and sold-out laser light shows. Phil Daniels, star of last year's Quad-rophenia, plays the little manager who gets squeezed out by the big label but retains his integrity. Breaking Glass gets the dynamic concert finish, with electric...