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...fast. Back in Macedon, where men are men and some women are too, an athletic teen-ager named Eurydike is practicing her javelin toss and dreaming of asserting a claim to the throne. Eurydike is the granddaughter of Philip II; her grandmother was an Illyrian warrior whom Philip wed to seal a peace treaty. Renault handles the matter discreetly: "The lady would not have been his choice for her own sake; she was comely, but he had trouble remembering which sex he was in bed with...
...overlooked one important ingredient in the "How Long Will You Live?'" quiz, namely: If you have one teen-ager subtract 2. If you have two, subtract 4. If you have three or more, subtract...
...Brien's sad-eyed face, a Keane portrait with angst, told moviegoers that even if Phyllis Thaxter were your mother or Judy Garland your big sister, childhood could be an unending melotrauma of nightmares and broken ideals. Gray was the winsome lad, then the sturdy teen-ager of Father Knows Best; he navigated adolescence like a middle-class Huck Finn. O'Brien and Gray were natural, winning, resourceful actors who took both their craft and their function as role models seriously. Their like has not been seen since-and, sibling, do we need them...
...fans got a psychedelic dose of rock antics that any Western teen-ager would recognize: flailing drummers, singers with shoulder-length hair blasting out songs through banks of amplifiers, ice-blue light beams bouncing off a multifaceted prism onto a throbbing stage. A total of eleven bands, putting on two concerts a night, thumped through such Soviet Top of the Pops hits as City Limits Blues, This Beautiful World and Mirror, plus such imports from the West as I Will Survive, and Blue Suede Shoes, both in English...
...Segregation was a way of life," says Ray House, now 76, Helms' high school principal. House adds: "Everybody played together?Jesse played with black kids too." (Helms said, a few years ago, that segregation was "not wrong for its time.") He was a gangling teen-ager whose schoolwork was only passably good except in math and English. "He had a big vocabulary for a country town," says Hinson. Clontz agrees: "He always used big words...