Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan glows as a feckless but fascinating mother in Michael Weller's poignant story of estranged parents and a teen son who schemes to reunite them. Now on Broadway...
...timeless in literature, but in danger of being rendered trite through overuse. In The Letter Left to Me, Joseph McElroy avoids cliches by developing this theme in a unique and effective manner. The novel centers on letter from a father, written a few years before his death, to his teen-aged son. McElroy's choice of plot saves his novel from becoming another repetitive reflection on dealing with death...
...movie, a young, geeky computer whiz (played by the same young, geeky actor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other assorted teen fantasies) breaks into a secret Pentagon computer and almost sets off World War III. This cinematic experience ends with a glorification of individual creativity--in the person of the computer geek and his loyal heroine (played by Ally Sheedy)--and a condemnation of technology gone wild--played by a renegade computer charmingly named Joshua...
...dozen U.S. communities in this decade. The Centers for Disease Control began a detailed study of the county last summer after the suicide rate there was found to be 33% higher than the national average. The county (pop. 400,000) has already suffered 51 suicides this year, including six teen deaths, and expects to hit a record 70 suicides by December. Authorities speculate that the root cause may be explosive growth. "Fifteen years ago Cobb County was rural pastureland," says Dirk Huttenbach, a psychiatrist for adolescents. "Anytime you have greater instability and less tradition, you're going to have this...
...posters for Hooters--the ones that feature a rather mammarial double o between the H and T of the title--may lead you to expect a typical coming-of-age teen sex comedy. Your expectations will be fulfilled. The characters are typical of the genre; the plot line is paper-thin; and the ideas are mawkish and trite. What Hooters lacks in substance, however, it makes up for in entertainment value. The result is a dumb play that is, nevertheless, amusing...