Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best known as the bitchy bombshell on TV's Flamingo Road. Six photographers portray Fairchild in relatively modest poses and attire. In a variety of interviews, Fairchild is only slightly more revealing, disclosing that she likes older men and as a youth was a "dumpy little pudgy-faced kid, with white hair and big glasses." Talk about aging gracefully...
...decline in advanced skills." During the past few years, 13 states, from California to Florida, have sent a strong message to high schools by demanding more requirements of freshmen entering state universities; some have demanded higher grades as well. Says University of Chicago Education Professor Philip Jackson: "Any kid who can follow the intricacies of an N.F.L. football game can follow the turns of plot in a Jane Austen novel or a Dickens tale...
What can a punk kid, a has-been general and a comedy team of robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire? A universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and almost every western ever screened...
...When Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...
What could become the opportunity for a contrived and inflated forum for Sibbald's opinions remains in the hands of the actors. Despite the magnitude of the life-death predicament. Tommy remains the simple, sincere kid trying--to the last--to mend fences. No fancy philosophical speeches, no existential angst--the simple words "Pop, I'm scared" are as effective as the handshake between Jim and Harry at a crucial and tender moment...