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...describe PFC Joseph White, who defected to North Korea [Sept. 13], as an earnest, straightarrow, all-American youngster, too shy to be popular, and unabashedly patriotic. That is just the point. Such a severely self-disciplined and rigid personality is exactly the type that would defect to more tyrannical conditions...
...adolescent title character. But even in small Oklahoma towns the world moves on, becomes more complicated; and before this modest, intelligent and entirely engaging movie concludes, young Tex has not only come to terms with Rowdy's loss, but been introduced to almost all the other perils a youngster must cope with these days: drugs, crime, sex, class distinctions, absent parents. The last of these is not the least of these. Tex and his sober, conventionally ambitious brother Mason are pretty much on their own in their tumbledown ranch house. Their mother is dead and their father...
...Mason, Jim Metzler conveys solidity without stolidity, commonsensicality without priggishness. It is the sort of self-effacing work that often, unfairly, gets overlooked in the movies. That is especially so when paired with a performance like Matt Dillon's as Tex. He's the kind of youngster who blends the antic and the stormy and makes it come out pure lopsided charm. No one has more accurately captured the mercurial quality of adolescence than he has, with anger, rebelliousness, gallantry, goofiness all tumbled together to create a confused, wholly believable vulnerability. When an assistant principal suspends...
...taught last semester. I had encouraged the young whites and blacks to be candid about the realities of their relationships here. What ensued was sudden and torrential. The blacks said they found it difficult to consider this their university. The whites said they were trying to understand. One white youngster was especially disarming. "I have nothing against you," he said of the blacks. "In fact, I like you. I think if there were more of you, the situation would be better...
...indeed? White was a so-so student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...