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...have been out of touch with this aspect of reality, what, exactly, is a Muppet? The word was coined from "marionette" and "puppet," says Jim Henson, 42, the skinny, bearded Zeus from whose brow the creatures began to spring 20-odd years ago, when he was a teen-ager hooked on television. He is the rarest of creatures in the imitative and adaptive world of entertainment, an originator. His brilliant central perception was that puppets could throw away the Punch and Judy box that had confined them for centuries and let the television set be their stage. The camera demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...them out to different "people" and is associated with a severely warped childhood. The illegitimate son of two Florida entertainers, Milligan was three when his father committed suicide. His stepfather physically abused his mother and sodomized young Milligan, threatening to bury him alive if he told. As a teen-ager in Ohio, Milligan fell into trances and walked the streets in a daze. He was incarcerated twice, once for rape, once for robbery, and failed at every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Man with Ten Personalities | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...gathering is decidedly middle-aged and Middle American. Yet the society's rolls list people of all ages and more than a smattering of doctors and engineers. The parapsychology class from Somerset School in Washington, D.C., included Teen-Ager Laura Michael. "I don't know what to make of it," she gushed. "It's all so mind blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Is Dowsing Going to the Dogs? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...inherited style of surviving adolescence and the radically different, new possibilities. Pat Boone and Elvis Presley, the malt shop and the rock concert, the jalopy and the drag racer, white bucks and black leather jackets-for a while in the '50s, two ways of being a teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black Hole | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when his spring gun shot a teen-ager who tried to steal some musical instruments from his garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Burglars and Booby Traps | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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