Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays Marty as a likeable, normal kid with only a slight propensity for things exciting and unusual. Unfortunately, it is just this normality that too often makes Marty bland. Caught between the film's comedic and dramatic worlds, Fox is forced to play Marty as a kind of straight man--a constant foil for all the other characters, whether they evoke our ridicule or our compassion. Considering this amorphous, all-inclusive role, Fox manages to emerge with a remarkably substantive character. But mere substance is not adequate in a role that forms the foundation of the entire movie...
...problem is this: By tradition, the rabbi provides a little wine to the baby to dull the pain. (Steiner, eh? Perhaps you remember that a briss is not always a Jew's earliest happy memory.) The kid will not be 21 for many years, so can we have a small exception? --A Loving Rabbi...
...campers, the romance remained intact. Allen Garber, a 31-year- old paramedic from Boulder, went through the weekend with a look of bruised wonder in his eyes. "When I was a kid," he said, "I thought I could become an astronaut." Then he added sadly, "As I got older, I became more realistic...
Elisa D. Sader '89, one of Mattox's charges, shared his sentiments. "You learn that the upperclassmen aren't so intimidating," she said. "They tell you what their opinions of the courses are, and what classes their friends have liked. It's just like talking to another kid...
...turned me on to punk when I was 10," she says. "He was a hippie in the Sixties and got arrested in Harvard Square on a narcotics charge when he was 19. Why don't you talk to that kid over there? He looks pretty lonely...