Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants are up 7%. Today, the average Englishwoman spends $8 annually on cosmetics. The British teen-ager was traditionally a purposefully plain miss, encased in wool-jumper uniform topped by a straw boater, who was supposed to be interested only in her pony. Now she starts powdering at 14, spends $20 a year on cosmetics...
...reference to your article on pornography v. the U.S. teen-ager [May 16], I as an adolescent am revolted by the way every status-seeking parent wishes to shield us from some Gargantuan force known as sex. To wipe sex out of our lives, they will have the Herculean task of i) destroying 7$% of the advertisements seen on TV, 2) razing every bookstore, newsstand and publishing house from coast to coast, 3) bankrupting the film industry, and 4) installing blinders on every red-blooded teenager...
After months of waiting. Disk Jockey Dick Clark-who at 30 is the U.S.'s oldest teen-ager-last week finally was up to his sunny smile in the payola hearings. Standing on the burning deck with aplomb, he assured the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he believed in his heart that he had never taken payola. "But you got an awful lot of royola," snapped Republican Steven B. Derounian, of New York's Nassau County, who was the clear winner of the session's Most Valuable Phrasemaker trophy...
...them fresh. Where the method richly pays off is in its not giving Conrad (well played by Dick Gautier) too much houseroom, in its saying bye-bye to him oftener than it squeals hello. In the same way, because a whole rock-'n'-roll call of teen-agers are often banished between aahs, or missing between oohs, they do not grow oppressive. If Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera, as the love interest, never quite make love interesting, they often brighten it with glints of hate and vary it with an amusing roadblock to the altar-Dick...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). A remake of Actress-Author Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play, Years Ago, tells about a stage-struck teen-ager who fights her parents for a crack at Broadway. Sandra (Gypsy) Church stars as the young Ruth, Robert (Music Man) Preston as her father...