Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing I can tell is that it was a bunch of young people, probably teen-agers because they only took certain things--beer, ham, candy bars, laundry detergent." Chin said...
America does love the beautiful Krystyna, too much to leave her alone. Even when she first arrives, a thin, gawky teen with bad teeth, who speaks no English, almost immediately a hot-shot director "discovers" her; he can't take his eyes off her. Anna takes in this poor Czech waif, who has sought her out after growing up admiring her on the screen, and within a year, Krystyna has learned English, had her teeth fixed (for free, by an amorous dentist), and landed the lead in a Hollywood movie. She remains pure and ingenuous, living a charmed life...
...that grinds to an unpleasant halt) in the desperate effort to get home. We are also aware of two agreeable things about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances (see Pretty in Pink) have always insisted that the American underclass is actually superior to its middle-class betters in worldly wisdom and moral acuity. Both his comic virtue and his social vision are on pleasant display here...
...personifying and psychoanalyzing the film industry is misleading. The studios don't lie awake at night feeling bad about crass, blockbuster teen comedies, and they don't make major decisions based on collective guilt or animus. Studios are corporations and corporations collect money. And in Hollywood there's only one possession prestigious enough to risk money. on: an Academy Award. But the Oscar statue is far more than a recognition of achievement. It's also the most effective publicity device a studio can hope...
...Marijuana is destructive in two ways. First, you can't learn on marijuana, and marijuana attracts the young. It kills their time, robs their attention and stunts their development. Use it often enough in your teen years, and you get to adulthood having lost crucial months, years, of emotional and intellectual growth. Second, marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, the stuff like cocaine and heroin that can destroy people in very short order...