Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glance. With any of three books, you can divine the answer to the Rubik's cube puzzle; the people who twist the multi-colored square for hours every day can now spend more time reading about it. You Can Do The Cube, by a 12-year-old British whiz-kid who probably has no friends, is the most popular...
...smell of airplane glue hangs heavy in the aisle of Woolworth's model department. There is everything here, from a 1979 Chevy Blazer (what kind of kid assembles these?) to a replica of the Flying White House, the Boeing 747 also known as the Doomsday Plane where the president will go to sit and watch his country incinerate. It is, the box promises, an exact duplicate of the model that sits at Fort Edwards...
Like Reed, Warren Beatty is an oversize kid with dreams to match. In a timid movie era, when most film makers are retreating to the safety of Boys' Life remakes and lectures in High Humanism, Beatty has spent four years and a sum estimated at anywhere from $32 million to $57 million as producer, director, co-author and star of a 3-hr. 20-min. movie about a nearly forgotten American Communist and his troubled, tempestuous wife Louise Bryant. These Reeds never pretend to be ordinary people; this Reds boasts not a single mechanical toy as a major character...
Junior whiz kid Darlene Beckford, who has never lost an individual race on Harvard's indoor track and who holds Harvard's record in the mile, two mile, 440 and 880--will be back to work her old magic. For the first time in two years, Beckford is going into the track season uninjured and healthy, and judging from her stellar 18th place finish in last month's cross-country Nationals, she could be better than ever this year...
...Crimson's Andy McNerney demolished Jim Sausville 30-6 in the most lopsided brawl of the night. McNerney dominated each period of the one-sided match scoring takedown after takedown. "Our wrestler was a good kid, but McNerney was better--one of the best I've seen in a long time," Aguiar said...