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Word: kid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benjie (Larry Scott) is a black kid, 13 years old, living in Watts, showing talent in school and resentment at home. The problem is that his father has run off and his mother (Cicely Tyson) is living with a man (Paul Winfield) whose presence is upsetting to the boy. Up to a point, this is to be expected. What is harder to understand is why this stepfather figure so powerfully distresses the child, since, despite the man's lack of legal status in the household, he is a paragon-hard working, loving, ever eager to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fast Food | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Little Kid moved into the neighborhood...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...intimidate or offend. As Joe Hardy, boy sleuth, he is absolutely hygienic. In concert, he adorns himself in requisite skin-tights and shakes his tail at the yearning throngs, but the distinct outline of his briefs pressing through the clinging fabric is disarming and reassuringly boyish, like a kid who has got all the moves down but not quite mastered the fine points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Squeaky-Clean Teen Dream | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...seven miles to the gym from the hotel and back every day along the causeway. He was always the first in and the last out of the gym. He is the most unspoiled kid I've ever had. He insisted on putting on his own gloves. He didn't like to be pampered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Is Gone | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Here's looking at you, kid...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: 'A Kiss Is Just a Kiss...' | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

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