Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three networks and on the front page of every newspaper in the country. America must again seem out of control, its priorities skewed way out proportion. How else would 12 men and women get the idea they were dispensing "justice" by treating America's latest villian with kid gloves...
...tale of an extra-terrestrial abandoned by his flying saucermates and the children who care for him, is for kids and for everyone who wants to be a kid. It takes an old theme-that adults, for all their wisdom and experience, fail to appreciate what is truly important character finds himself stranded on this planet, in suburban California, no less. Scientists-adults-have scared off the rest of his intergalactic expedition. After days of successfully avoiding these intellectual predators, E.T. discovers Elliott-probably about 10 years old-who takes him home and takes care...
...Birds leads a Pink Lady into a fallout shelter in the hope of making out with her there. He explains that the place is for use in case of "nucular." "Nuclear," he is corrected. "Nucular, nuclear, a bomb is still a bomb," he replies. You said it, kid...
...Beat System joins an innumerable legion of schlock paperback gimmicks now decorating cash register counters at the Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school...
Although the book lacks any humor and quality, it inevitably will sell well because of the implicit guarantee. You come with us kid, and you've got it made a high grade point average, a flawless transcript, a ticket to the grad school of your choice. "What more could an eager freshman ask for? As the author argue. "What you have actually learned is something else entirely...no one expects you to "know" anything. They just want to see that little piece of paper covered with honors...