Word: agers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downbeat and burning his way through to the hot, angry heart of Billie Jean; the boy who has an uncanny sense of what his audience wants and how to go about the hard and profitable business of giving it to them; the gentle, slightly self-mocking teen-ager in Thriller ("I've got somethin' I want to tell ya...I'm not like other guys") who turns into one of the grisliest werewolves in screen history and enjoys the transformation the way another adolescent might heat up on a first heavy date...
...recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet. "A verse of his described an old farmyard and talked about 'weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.' Something in that language touched some secret storage...
...suit, brought on behalf of Gordon's improbably named 15-year-old nephew Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramaphone Getty, had been started by the teen-ager's father, J. Paul Getty Jr., 51, Gordon's older brother. The two siblings have seldom got along. Gordon's lawyers charged that oil company officials coerced J. Paul...
...That was axiomatic." Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween), the film eliminates the book's more lurid excesses, stripping it down to a tense tale of a dorky teen-ager whose 20-year-old Plymouth has an evil will of its own. The gleaming heap was actually played by 24 different vehicles, only three of which were still running by the end of the fender-bending filming...
...series. In 1974, A Case of Rape with Elizabeth Montgomery was the first major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent, which cast Teen-Ager Linda Blair as the victim of a sexual assault committed with a broom handle. Although prime-time dramatizations of proscribed subjects get most of the attention, taboos are often first broached on soap operas. In October, for example, the creators of All My Children arranged the maiden, if not maidenly...