Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answers, as might be expected with such a patchwork show, depend on what is onstage at the moment. The pratfall pandemonium of the opening scene of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum makes one long for a full-scale Broadway revival. The dance suite of teen gang wars adapted from West Side Story actually benefits by being divorced from the original's cute, coy lyrics, which in life would not tumble trippingly from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World...
...other main character in the novel is a teen-ager with growing pains, probably included for the sake of young viewers. Wesley Crusher, who gets to work on the bridge, is a pathetic boygenius angry because he is not treated like an adult by the rest of the crew...
Like Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster, teen idol Salenger has replaced Hollywood scripts with Ivy League textbooks...
Coca-Cola has not lost its fizz either. In December the company signed teen heartthrob George Michael for a diet Coke commercial, to begin this week, which features music from a previously unreleased single (his fee: a reported $4 million). In the past, Coke has recruited the Pointer Sisters and Whitney Houston. All of which raises a profound question: Which brand would Elvis have chosen...
...worrisome is the threat to mental health. Drug users are prone to moodiness, depression, irritability and what are known as "roid rages." Ex- user Darren Allen Chamberlain, 26, of Pasadena, Calif., describes himself as an "easygoing guy" before picking up steroids at age 16. Then he turned into a teen Terminator. "I was doing everything from being obnoxious to getting out of the car and provoking fights at intersections," he says. "I couldn't handle any kind of stress. I'd just blow. You can walk in my parents' house today and see the signs -- holes in doors I stuck...