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...Pitchford have set their sights much higher. The basic plot-Rebel Without a Cause crossed with the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musicals in which somebody always shouted, "Hey, kids, let's put the show on right here!"-is buttressed with motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement and Bible Belt vigilantism. That is a lot of weight for a slender teen pic to carry, and this one sinks under the load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revel Without a Cause | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...didn't execute anything we wanted to," said Crimson forward Joe Carrabino, who the Cadets held in closer check gone AWOL. "And they executed everything we did want...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Hoopsters Go AWOL in West Point, Dropping First of the Season, 73-49 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Brother Prog H A N D Krokodiloes AWOL Standard Deviants: Supervisor House Woodshop House football defensive coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Class Marshals | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...central character is the rebellious, goofy boy who becomes a college dropout, an AWOL sailor, a protesting scholar and a waiflike pornographer. He could be a mere shnook. But as shrewdly played by Jack Gilpin, he is a natural winner with a compulsion to foul up to prove his independence. Ann McDonough, in the unshowy part of the girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elegy for the Declining Wasp | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably actressy. And then there is Barnard Hughes, a man who enhances the scope and embellishes the vocabulary of acting every time he steps on a stage. He plays a tart priest whose vocation has gone AWOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Windbags Inc. | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

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