Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Start speaking, kid. Time is money. McNeese State is giving me airplane tickets to Hawaii if I give 'em the go to upset Illinois in the first round. Robert Morris has been calling me all afternoon. A last-second basket to beat Arizona, they're telling...
Twelve-year-old Khalil Kinsey is one of only three black youngsters in his sixth-grade class in Los Angeles. In school, he says, "kids like to feel my hair because it's fuzzy. They ask questions like do I get sunburned when I go to the beach. Dumb questions like that. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I'm different." Khalil's father Bernard, a Xerox executive, would like his son to someday attend Florida A&M, the mostly black school he and his wife attended. "It's important for a black kid to understand that there...
...come easily to Quiggle, who joined TIME in 1979 and served as cover art researcher from 1980 to 1984 and deputy makeup editor from 1981 to 1986. She became makeup editor three years ago, but claims her natural affinity for the work goes back much further. "As a kid I seldom lost at bridge. That's why I got the job," she says half jokingly. "It requires a knack for puzzle solving." Not to mention diplomacy and stamina. Quiggle works closely with the magazine's advertising staff to help coordinate the fast-moving mix of articles and ads that appears...
Since John Avildsen, who directed Rocky and The Karate Kid, is obviously not attracted to depressing subjects, you know up front that Lean on Me will lean heavily on Mailer's theorem in telling the Joe Clark story. The estimable Morgan Freeman plays the man who became the last-hope principal of crime- ridden, drug-soaked, graffiti-infested Eastside High in Paterson...
Polsky: "When you're talking about quotes you've got to mention Lenny Falape, the little known muse of Western Samoa. I remember when I was a kid I would sit on the porch and talk for hours on end with Dr. Falape, studying his every utterance. This, of course, was before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. In a nutshell, he truly transcends language...