Word: kid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still the kid who quit school, I'm still the kid who ran away from home three times, I still left the Air Force early...when I finally enacted these postures publicly and was applauded for it, the cycle was completed and I could turn around and shake hands with myself and proceed to my adulthood...
...still the kid who quit school, I'm still the kid who ran away from home three times, I still left the Air Force early 'cause we didn't get along, and I still had all of these problems adjusting to the way they had laid it out. So when I finally enacted these rebellious postures publicly and was applauded for it, the cycle was completed and I could turn around and shake hands with myself and proceed to my adulthood...
Carlin always enjoyed breaking rules, crossing race and ethnic lines, mimicking Blacks and Italians and Jews. He's listed his "Seven Words" in auditoriums for ears all over America, and has completed a very astute study of the unspoken street culture that parents try desperately to shelter their kids from. Carlin sees his comedy and rebellion as his self-expression, his way of freeing himself from his emotions and feelings--a liberation. It started, he says, "when I was a kid and I ran away from home and told all the institutions to go and fuck themselves. I was smoking...
...much for the critics who say Carlin's comedy is kid stuff. Despite living in the luminous shadow of Lenny Bruce, pioneer of modern irony and consciousness, Carlin has steadily dug out his niche as a performing artist...
...that Tatum O'Neal is no longer a kid, what is to be done with her? At 14, this actress is too old to make another Paper Moon or Bad News Bears, yet too young to sashay about in an R-rated remake of Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Tatum is in a real fix, all right, and International Velvet doesn't offer her any help...