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Still, sociologists who study teens say the rules are also a by-product of the hyperprotective parenting characteristic of baby boomers. "There's a disconnect between all this regulating and the dangers kids actually face," says Barbara Risman, head of the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She says the strictures have a downside: "Taking away the ability to exercise choices might not allow teens to learn to make decisions and live with the consequences...
...movies since 1955's How To Be Very, Very Popular ("It was a turkey"), she had allowed herself to be talked into preparing a nightclub routine for the plush, high-priced Hollywood-Las Vegas-New York-Miami circuit. Explained the Latin Quarter's General Manager Ed Risman: "We booked her because of nostalgia." But for a packed house at her opening in New York, it was the night the old nostalgia burned down...
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