Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept secret about Siskel and Ebert is that they agree much more often than they disagree. Their tastes are generally similar (two thumbs up for Prick Up Your Ears and Swimming to Cambodia; two thumbs down for Blind Date and The Secret of My Success). Both rail regularly against teen sex comedies, violent horror films and car chases. Good movies are almost always those that have "characters you can identify with...
...book, Wilson challenges liberal orthodoxies by candidly exploring the social pathologies -- drug use, crime, teen pregnancies, welfare dependency and other destructive behavior -- evident in the inner cities. Discussion of these catastrophic ghetto problems by liberals has been stifled, he says, ever since black scholars raised a storm over the 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the breakdown of the black family. In the absence of forthright research from liberals and blacks, writes Wilson, right-wing scholars like Charles Murray (Losing Ground) gained influence with the Reagan Administration by asserting that welfare programs had become so lucrative that they provided...
...response to his appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...
...fattest 5 percent of the youngsters in 1960 were considered by the researchers to be "superobese." In 1980, 9 percent of the teen-agers and 12 percent of the preteens were in this category...
Poor children are thinner than middle-class youngsters, although the poor are quickly narrowing the weight gap. Children and teen-agers also tend to be fatter in the winter than in the warmer months...