Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toys" by filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping every time. As a youngster in Southern California, Steve used to bike over to nearby Disneyland and virtually moved in. He sold guidebooks, practiced card tricks, prowled the park's secret passages after hours, and idolized Wally Boag, a vaudevillian who did card tricks and balloon animals at Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe Revue...
Unfortunately, no film about a youngster seems complete without drug addiction or romantic interest, and One on One opts for the latter, wholesome, all-American production that it is. Perhaps it would have been better going for the junkies. Benson falls for the tutor assigned to him by the athletic department, played by the appealing Annette O'Toole. She hates jocks, hates them with a passion, as does her hip psychology professor boyfriend. But Benson's earnestness soon makes her give up the obnoxious prof for her tutee, who convinces her that sports in themselves aren...
...streets there was almost a sense of camaraderie between the cops and the black and Hispanic youths. Some of the officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant swung their long riot sticks like golf clubs, sending tin cans and other debris flying out of the gutter. "Hey, man," called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage boy in Harlem said with a trace of wistfulness: "Christmas is over...
...releases most first offenders immediately after "contact." But tracing the child's arrest record is often difficult. Neither the court nor probation maintains a city wide data bank, though probation hopes to have a computerized system working by winter. Says Administrative Judge Joseph Williams: "You could have a youngster taken in here today who was picked up yesterday in Queens and last week in Brooklyn. We wouldn't necessarily know about the previous cases...
...parade of past champions, McEnroe's behavior was no more reprehensible than that of a high-spirited schoolboy-which he is. McEnroe's remarkable odyssey came to an end in his semifinal match with Connors. Betrayed by his serve-always the last phase of a youngster's game to come under control -McEnroe succumbed in four sets...