Word: teens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerge equally from the individual and from the University--an unfortunate mix of the normal anxieties of adolescence and the sadistic impersonality of this place. If you're emotionally vulnerable, personally naive, or just unlucky, Harvard will chew you up and spit you out like the insignificant piece of teen-age gristle...
...teen-ager who survived the massacre but whose father perished said the terrorists doused some of the bodies with gasoline and set them afire. Police said seven bodies had been burned...
When we first meet Mona, she's a teen rebel, smoking cigarettes and yelling at people when she doesn't like them. She's running away from something, we don't know what, but we expect to. But we never find out. The film turns out to be not about Mona the girl, but about Mona the symbol. In her wanderings, she encounters different people representing different philosophical outlooks, and her passing through their lives changes them. Interviews with the people who have met or seen Mona are spliced in throughout the action, supposedly to prove that Mona has left...
When the weather turns warm, entertainment is supposed to turn frothy and frivolous. In movie theaters, the summer brings teen comedies and top guns; at the beach, Robert Ludlum mysteries and Barbara Cartland romances. Yet TV, oddly, has taken a different tack of late. Summer series today are more likely to be of the serious sort, shows that would have little chance of surviving the ratings battle any other time of year. Thus two prime-time newsmagazines -- CBS's West 57th and NBC's 1986 -- have joined the networks' hot-weather schedules; both will presumably be back in storage...
...mutt on David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks. He secured TV fame playing a gnomish cab dispatcher with a heart of gunk. Not, you might say, Hollywood's idea of a leading man, unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video touting a previous hit, The Jewel of the Nile? Or as the voice...