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...able to judge not only the was able to judge not only the creature's height but also its sex and age: male, about 16 or 17 years old. From markings showing where the muscles were attached to the bone, he also determined that this ancient teen-ager walked upright...
...Spierpoint" just after World War I; Waugh went to Lancing at the same time. Details and dialogue are loosely transplanted from the author's diaries. Like Waugh, young Ryder exhibits a monkish passion for drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type was a disaster, sir. It destroyed calligraphy." There is a dearth of incident, and most of the schoolboy repartee reads like a twit's guide to the jargon of the better classes...
...antisalt advocates fear that the general public will still not cut down on sodium. Says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "It is unlikely that the school-age child whose father or mother has hypertension will scrutinize labels, or the black teen-ager whose blood pressure is slightly above normal, or the 35-year-old trucker whose diet consists largely of convenience and restaurant foods...
...Widows and Children First!, is both the best and the worst. It takes place five years later. Alan has been killed in a "fag bash," an attack on homosexuals by macho punks; Ed has finally split from Laurel; and Arnold is in the process of adopting a gay teen-ager (Matthew Broderick). Add to that a visit from Mrs. Beckoff (Estelle Getty), the ultimate Jewish mother, and Fierstein has enough material for another three-acter. He has in fact perhaps too much to handle-or too little sense of structure to handle it well. He seems to have just tacked...
...close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes" ever since her brother put ear drops in them. Am I Blue's Ashbe Williams is a wildly romantic teen-ager with a propensity for stringing Cheerios on a shoelace, then eating them. Pixrose Wilson, the ethereal urchin who attends The Wake of Jamey Foster, dreams of having a baby: half human, half sheep. Are they weird? Naaah, they are the most engaging bunch of eccentrics since the days...