Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laura Z. Hobson's new novel, Consenting Adult (Doubleday; $7.95), the mother of a gay teen-ager first sends him to a psychiatrist, who fails to "cure" him. After a cycle of deep shock, self-reproach, bitter arguments and forced reconciliations, she finally comes to accept her son's homosexuality and even sends him a congratulatory telegram when he comes...
...Family tune is a cynical compromise reached by the FCC and the networks to deflect mounting protests, in and out of Congress, about the rising tide of TV violence. Criticism peaked last fall when NBC aired at 8 p.m. a seamy story (Born Innocent) about a rebel teen-ager who was raped with a broom handle. With a glow of virtue, the networks "voluntarily" agreed to police themselves with their own censors and wrote into the National Association of Broadcasters' television code what amounts to a rule clearly intended to ban sex and violence from the air between...
...dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she played a professional teen-age virgin. Carrie has a hit flick too: Warren Beatty's Beverly Hills satire Shampoo. She also played a teen-ager-a nymphet who traps Beatty into...
...series of brisk scenes that capture both the suddenness and improbability of such success. Once he has it made, MacLaine becomes in quick succession a poet, a guru, a her mit and finally a cultural casualty. He is aided and discomforted through the entire trajectory by his personal man ager (Adam Faith), and the business man (Larry Hagman) who has turned him into a conglomerate...
...also appeared in a film by Luchino Visconti. Sanda lives on the edge of the forest at Rambouillet outside Paris with her son by Actor Christian Marquand, her current lover, Painter Frédérique Pardo, and Pardo's mother. When as a rebellious teen-ager Dominique settled on a stage name, it was Sand -as in George Sand, the elegant cigar-smoking 19th century novelist. But apparently a century seemed not enough to avoid possible confusion, so Dominique added an a. And left it at that...