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...chipmunk's mainstream pop doesn't satiate your more adventuresome taste, try the Christmas Rock collection on Rhino Records. Likely to become a collectors item, this limited edition on a green, Christmas-tree-shaped disk features one of the hottest punk groups around. The Dragons, as well as California surf-rock veterans the Malibooz. The former let loose with an ear-shattering version of "Silent Night" that makes the infamous Neil Young rendition sound like chamber music. As for the Mals, they make Christmas in California a real treat. Who cares that there's no snow in Malibu. When Santa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roll Over Jingle Bells | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cable's Rock Round the Clock | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...Where else can a student go with five dollars and buy a piece of clothing?" asked Sandy Parmelee, owner of the "Reddog" shop at 1737 Mass. Ave. "We sell costumes to punk bands and overcoats to Harvard faculty members...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: 'Costumes to Bands and Coats to Professors' | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

Because almost 70 per cent of its customers are students, Oona's tends to sell mostly trendy clothes. "We call ourselves punk and preppy," White said...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: 'Costumes to Bands and Coats to Professors' | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly nasty contributions: sleaze (as in, "There was a lot of sleaze at the party," meaning much of the transcendentally rotten) has passed from the homosexual vocabulary into punk, and is headed for mainstream English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Slang Is Not a Sin | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

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