Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heading in that direction. Harry believes his wife (Susan Clark) may be fooling around. He shadows her like a suspect, confronts her like a criminal, and they make an uneasy peace. The main case Harry takes up, however, could have come straight from Archer's files: a troubled youngster searching for parental love...
...Wilder acknowledges a more important influence, namely, certain traditional types of Oriental theater. As a youngster Wilder lived and went to school in Shanghai and Hong Kong for a time. In the abovementioned preface he notes that in Chinese drama an actor may straddle a stick to suggest horseback riding, and that in the Japanese Noh theater a circling of the stage may stand for a long journey. He might have added that the centuries-old Noh drama uses no curtain and no change of lighting. The plays are acted with few or no props beyond a fan, which...
...nice to see so many Americans open their kind hearts to donate food, clothing and money to those refugee children who are being brought to the U.S.? But what about the starving black child in the ghetto, the poor Indian on the reservation, or the ragged-clothed youngster in Appalachia? Where can they flee to? How many special funds are set up for them...
...Boulac, whose territory includes Washington, Oregon and parts of Texas and Ohio, the cycle begins in earnest during the summer with mailed queries to hundreds of high school coaches for the names of prospects. Their replies provide a pool of nearly 1,000 candi dates. Next, each youngster receives a questionnaire asking if he is interested in Notre Dame. That begins a whittling-down process designed to cut the number to a more manageable 100 by December when Boulac begins weekly jet tours. Dressed in a green "Irish" blazer, Boulac passes through an endless series of gyms and coaches...
...population. It strikes in childhood, five times more often among adolescent girls than boys. Most cases are classified by doctors as idiopathic, meaning that the causes are unknown. But the symptoms are all too familiar. Scoliosis is a progressive disease; without treatment, the curvature may become worse as a youngster grows older, disfiguring him with a hunched back. Eventually, the increasing curvature can distort the vital organs within the chest cavity and produce conditions that may cause death in young adulthood...