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Most of all, they want to vacation in Florida, whose mythic allure and down-to-sand prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British...
...library fags," who serve seniors elected to the group known as "the Library." Library fags are excused from general calls of "Boy, up!" and "Boy, queue!" (an after-dinner general work session). Top rung for newcomers is the title Keeper of the Fags, given to a young lad brawny enough to preserve discipline...
When Thompson meets up with Laszlo and Billy four years after the lad's conviction, the two have become gun-running revolutionaries, holed up in a shack somewhere in southern California with a small army of violent Chicanos. At this point, Where the Buffalo Roam almost makes a statement about how injustice breeds violence and corrupts the concerned and the innocent. But Laszlo and Billy are so two-dimensional the message falls flat. Laszlo seems merely to have reached a new plateau of raving fanaticism and Billy becomes the standard Victim of Society. Worse still, this hideout scene quickly degenerates...
...OSKAR, Schlondorff discovered David Bennent, a ten-year-old, blue-eyed, frozen-faced lad who himself stopped growing at age six. Surrounded by a superb supporting cast, Bennent's Oskar watches the world with angry insolence, determined to drum, to examine the world of adults with studied innocence. His voice has a contemptible condescending tone that nonetheless seduces us. His high-pitched screams that break glass--art as a destructive protest--ring with the desperate tremor of a genius creating a master-piece. Bennent is terrifying in a Nazi uniform yet his cherubic smile is almost Christ-like...
...another lad, That girl who promised, "I will