buzzcutted

Now we’re going to get a law where beered up, buzzcutted cops from provincial holes like Voronezh and from the Podmoskoviye are going to have to walk into places like Luch, look at the sloe-eyed teenyboppers in London rave gear grinding away to monotonous techno music, and make the expert determination, on sight, as to their sobriety.

2000, Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, quoting “Guilty: The War on Fun” by Peter Garrett, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 122

It is quiet in the daytime but kicks off at night, its courtyards hiding dubious bars such as Łódź Kaliska, a hangout organized by the conceptual artists of the same name, decked out with ‘ironic’ photographs of the artists surrounded by large breasted women, in tableaux inspired by the great European paintings, its mirrored dancefloor with buzzcutted men and tall women dancing to dubious pop.

2018, Owen Hatherley, Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent, Penguin Books, published 2019, →ISBN