Word: tells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They can tell us about when they were kids," I suggested...
Talk about your dish! In 1963 English gossip columnists figured they had died and gone to tabloid heaven. When these peccadilloes hit the front pages, you couldn't tell the players without a Who's Who and a Burke's Peerage. The scandal, a wild party held at the sunset of imperial Britain, brought down Harold Macmillan's Tory government and ushered in the era of Swinging London: the Beatles, miniskirts, free love and pricey drugs...
...about 225 kids and 75 parents are participating in Carrera's three Harlem-based programs. Carrera's track record is impressive. In four years only two girls have become pregnant and, as far as the counselors can tell from their intimate weekly individual discussions with the kids, only one boy has fathered a child. "This is not a value-free program," he explains. "We have a message that delaying sexual activity is good. We are taking a stand." This year the Childrens Aid Society is establishing the Stern National Training Center for Family Life Education in Manhattan, where Carrera will...
Movies are show; plays are tell. Here's one difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...
...there were always the marvelous cones, for Howard Johnson's cones were just about the only ones that stayed crisp and tasty no matter how long one spent lapping the ice cream down into the bottom, trying to make it last longer than anyone else's cone. Mon Dieu, tell Marcel Proust that madeleines are not made anymore...