Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original Soviet kid hero of this species was Pavlik Morozov, 12, who has earned immortality in the Soviet Encyclopedia for betraying his father in 1930 during the forced collectivization drive. Two years later, the lad became a Communist martyr when, the story goes, he was assassinated by a band of landowners...
...precision workmanship. Others were not working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about a crude device for exploring the moon: "It's wonderful what a kid can do with an Erector...
Jean Genet has been in prison, and his insights into the smothered aspirations and inarticulate regrets of jailed men are occasionally penetrating and even beautiful. But Louis Lopez-Cepere as the effeminate kid, Maurice, and George Quenzel as the poseur, LeFranc, shout and gesticulate until you can no longer hear M. Genet. Maurice is turned into such a hyperbolized fairy that his pathetic love and desperation become the cheapest banality. His real groping for affection is represented by nine or ten unctuous lunges at his cellmates. As for Quenzel, someone must have told him that the more important a line...
...playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows. "I own it. I'm the best!" On the sidelines a shrewd gambler (George C. Scott) smiles thinly and murmurs to the dazed old king: "Stay with this kid. He's a loser...
...Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-age twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying-both twins played by Hayley Mills, biggest child star since Temple and a better actress than Shirley...