Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although all three episodes pretend to be offering a mature view of a difficult time of life, only the central one, Genevieve, avoids being kid stuff. In it, two French Canadian girls travel to the winter carnival in Montreal. On the way Louise (Louise Marleau) shows some photographs of a young man to her friend Genevieve. His first name, she says, is Bernard; his last name is "hands off." But Genevieve can't keep her hands to herself, and eventually she loses a girl friend by stealing a boy friend. As the junior vamp, Canada's Genevieve Bujold...
...dealing with a boy's reaction to World War II, it rings as flat as a shofar blown by a gentile. Listening to a radio report on the Normandy invasion, Reuven thinks miserably of the "broken vehicles and dead soldiers" on the beaches. No base ball-playing American kid-Jewish or otherwise-thought for a moment of bodies on that glorious day; he imagined brave jut-jawed soldiers in spotless khakis charging through the cringing, craven "Nazzy" lines...
...second time rock'n'roll will have contributed to consciousness expansion. Donovan's "electrical banana" prefigured that craze and a group called The Innocents have revived the hit of the 1940's Mairzy Doats, with the chorus: Mairzy doats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you? Perhaps this is why lambs look so sweet...
...bearded student are sitting there when this high school kid comes up. "Got any grass," he says. "Any what?" says Joe. "Oh, yeah, grass. No. Try Friday or Saturday night." The kid goes off to another table...
...already been clocked once for 40 yards. I wasn't quite awake yet and I wanted to make sure I was loose, so I started these exercises we use in track. Dave told me later that the scout, watching impatiently half-way down the field, quietly remarked. 'This kid's a real showboat...