Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I was a kid," Jesse says, "you had to become Anglo to survive. For the kids today, it's hip to be latino." How hip? A New Wave rock band formed by U.S.-born Mexican Americans is called Los Illegals. Avance, a stylish new magazine written in English, has a young, upscale circulation of 35,000. But for every trendy Avance subscriber in L.A. there are at least ten who resist adaptation. Says L.A. Times Columnist Frank del Olmo: "There's a large segment within the legal population who see themselves as Mexicans. They don't necessarily want...
First he tries to woo the kid by walking him into the Indoor Track and Tennis Center (ITT) and showing him the track--a facility some call the fastest in the world. Sometimes that's all it takes. But sometimes the visitor asks the question Haggerty doesn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just says "It's in the Stadium." Rarely does he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...
...high students have rolled their fingers on print cards at school since March. In Topeka, Kans., more than 8,000 youngsters, ages nine months to 17 years, have showed up at malls, churches, schools and scout troop meetings since Christmas to take advantage of the police-sponsored Ident-A-Kid program. On Mother's Day weekend, employees of Honeywell in Clearwater, Fla., brought 93 of their offspring to the office to participate in the company-sponsored Operation Ident. That same weekend in New England, 40 McDonald's restaurants promoted a "Thumbs Up!" Mcfingerprinting...
...turned out, the rather unremarkable bust had Brideshead Revisited overtones: the silent co-defendant was Eric Breindel, 27, an aide with the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence for New York Democrat Daniel P. Moynihan. Says an older friend: "He is a golden youth, this kid. He is loyal, honorable, fine, delicate, conscientious and loving...
...school. In short, he is as believable as any recent movie adolescent, and his responses to the Government security forces who are convinced he is an enemy agent are full of injured innocence and inventive ripostes. For about two-thirds of its distance, as it places an ordinary kid in an extraordinary situation, WarGames flirts with an E.T.-like charm. One imagines young David heading toward a small, smart, deadly encounter with gum-snapping Dabney Coleman, who plays, with his usual admirable restraint, a true believer in the Pentagon's, and WOPR's, infallibility...