Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this instance the state was both owner and editor. The Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision affirmed the right of the principal of the school to prevent the publication of two stories in the school's student newspaper, the Spectrum. The principal felt that the articles concerning teen-age pregnancy and divorce threatened the privacy rights of students quoted in the articles, and he pulled them from the paper...
Andrea Callow, the student who wrote the article on teenage pregnancy, was more concerned. "If student journalists want to write about a subject like teen pregnancy, they are going to be hesitant," says Callow, now a journalism student at the University of Missouri. The ruling is especially troubling, says Steven Shapiro of the American Civil Liberties Union, because there was nothing vulgar about the censored articles. "Here we are dealing with clearly serious and responsible student speech...
Remember the 1980s? They had movie stars then. Burt Reynolds was the hot-shot hero with a good ole boy's heart. Richard Pryor was the clown who mined laughter from his own black rage. Molly Ringwald was the teen queen who knew that growing pains could hurt like an all-over, seven-year toothache...
...amiable hunk like Reynolds, an incredible hulk, muscle-bound and soul-bare -- Robo-star. Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop II: instead of the wailing bantam Pryor, a strutting rooster, increasingly aloof from his genial gifts. Michael J. Fox in The Secret of My Success: instead of the teen queen, a yuppie pup, too eager to make it, too hungry to charm. He was a scrubbed-up version of the rich preppie Ringwald usually ditched in the last reel...
Though Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue try hard to play fair, For Keeps? still trumpets a tattered teen-movie message that only the young think clearly and feel deeply. Darcy's mom (Miriam Flynn) does get to display some wistful despair -- "Sooner or later, everybody leaves," she says, referring to family and pals as well as lovers, "that's what love's all about" -- but in general she is a snooty shrew. Director John G. Avildsen (Joe, Rocky, Neighbors) relies mostly on his young star to bring passion and balance to the piece. And Ringwald, in a hospital scene...