Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fast as that of adults. In San Francisco, kids of 17 and under are arrested for 57% of all felonies against people (homicide, assault, etc.) and 66% of all crimes against property. Last year in Chicago, one-third of all murders were committed by people aged 20 or younger, a 29% jump over 1975. In Detroit, youths commit so much crime that city officials were forced to impose a 10 p.m. curfew last year for anyone 16 or under...
That privileged class keeps enlisting ever younger members. Partly this is a response to juvenile laws. Older kids employ younger confederates?who tend to get off easily if caught?to push drugs, commit robberies and sometimes murder. In New Haven, two brothers, Ernest Washington, 16, and Erik, 14, along with four other kids, were arrested for robbing and killing a Yale student. Since Erik was underage, he confessed that he had pulled the trigger. He told New Haven Prosecutor Michael Whalen: "The most you're going to give me is two years." Erik, in fact, was bound over to adult...
...gods, the thoughtful, thirtyish ex-Beatles freak may well ask, what is happening to the younger generation? In Tokyo, Chicago and Paris, kids are bumping, grinding, loving, hating, wailing to the loud, raucous, often brutal sounds of punk rock. For a year or so, punk has been flourishing in the seediest rock joints-a Bowery bar called CBGB's in New York, a dingy cavern called the Roxy in London, and The Rat in Boston. There, shock is chic. Musicians and listeners strut around in deliberately torn T shirts and jeans; ideally, the rips should be joined with safety...
...outrage in Soap-though certainly no harder than finding evidence of sophisticated adult farce. The plot revolves around two middle-aged sisters and their families in suburban Round Hill, Conn. Mary Campbell (Cathryn Damon) struggles to stay afloat in the middle class. Her husband (Richard Mulligan) is impotent; her younger son would like to be her daughter. "He's sick!" rages the husband. "So am I," says Mary. "He looks better in that dress than...
Faced with returns of thousands of unsold newsstand copies, Playboy has now cut back its circulation guarantee from 5.4 million copies a month, to 4.5 million-exactly the same as its upstart rival Penthouse. (Hustler and Playboy's naughtier younger brother Oui are the other two top sellers.) Since with age and success Playboy has become the most "conservative" of the sex magazines, some might argue that its newsstand decline only proves Gresham's law. But this morality play isn't all that simple. It has more to do with society's shifting sexual standards...