Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, many people with severe disabilities were confined all their lives to rehabilitation hospitals "where everyone has assumed, maybe even talked about, `so we'll just give him personal care and attendance three shifts a day and we'll call that a life.' Where parents of kids were told `that's about as far as your kid Herbie can go because Herbie's disabled'," says Brightman. "We never should have thought that...
...What [the new technology] means is for the first time other kids can begin to learn that this kid who up to now had to use communication simply to make functional needs come and go and can't really do a lot of digressive calculations, other kids can learn for the first time that 'he's kind of a whiz at baseball statistics, we never knew that before. He's got a good sense of humor, we never knew that before,'" Brightman says...
AFTER new Bosox hurler Mike Boddicker struck out Paul Molitor on a pitch that jitter-bugged its way across the plate and after Kevin Romine made a catch that could rival the Say Hey Kid's, I was hooked for the afternoon. By the eighth inning, I joined the Fenway faithful in a standing ovation for Boddicker. By the last out of the game, I was up on my feet...
...from the "I gotta" of need. In an age of instant gratification and infant attention span, the popular arts have played to this childish impulse. Heavy-metal rock beats out its primal demands like a child pulling a high-chair tantrum. TV is the baby-sitter of a spoiled kid's dreams: it promises everything, never says no and lets you change the channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent than infantile, spinning fables in which youth is its own reward. The summer hit Big teaches that a 13-year...
...this kid kingdom, Pee-wee Herman is the prince of prepuberty. For almost a decade, Actor-Writer Paul Reubens, 35, has presented himself as Pee-wee, a gawky, geeky child. The spectacle is both corny and hip, retrograde and avant- garde. It turns Pinky Lee, the '50s kids' show host, into a subject for performance art. At first Pee-wee was a coterie favorite of adults, but with his 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and his Saturday-morning TV show, Reubens has gained a huge peanut gallery. Even for those who found the Pee-wee persona grating, there...