Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some teen dreams become stars; a few become actors. In one early role, Cruise showed he had the capacity for both. In Taps (1981), where he was up against Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn, he played a military-school cadet who goes picturesquely bonkers and is killed by the National Guard. "It's beautiful, man! Beautiful!" he shouts as he sprays the quad with an orgasm of machine-gun fire. In his first significant film of the '80s, as in his last, Cruise was the gung-ho soldier boy, his body destroyed in the fantasy of combat...
Members of the Area Four Coalition also said that helping the community lower the escalating crime and drug rates will be one of many benefits of the teen center...
...like [the issues of] crime and the teen center to be completely intertwined. A lot of people are concerned about crime and drugs, but there are other programs too," Conrad said...
Healy's announcement follows the promise of the members of the new City Council to refuse any budget proposals that did not allocate funds to the building of a teen center for Area Four...
...Places like teen centers can become more than just a place to go. They can be positive alternatives and resources for young persons," said Councillor-elect Jonathan S. Myers...