Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...juniors gave the youngster a chance last night. They also gave him some nice passes...
Then came the bills. One youngster was so hooked on Scoopline that he ran up $7,000 worth of charges in two months. Mountain Bell last month suspended the service in Utah until Ultraphone agreed to warn all callers about the fees as they rang on. Two weeks ago Mountain Bell canceled Scoopline in Albuquerque. Ultraphone has offered to provide a 24-hour adult monitor to police the chatter, a solution that seems to be working in Utah. Insists Betsy Superfon, vice president of Ultraphone: "Scoopline is a great way for people to meet new friends." But for youngsters...
...opens up in the remote, blizzard-wracked regions of the Himalayas, with a strange Tibetan ceremony that involves offerings to a child (J.L. Reate) who has magical, healing powers. Shortly, an evil, darkly-clad figure (Charles Dance) invades the temple and, with the help of his marauders, kidnaps the youngster. Cut to Los Angeles, where Chandler Jarrell (Murphy) is a finder of lost children. He is, according to ancient scrolls, the "Chosen One," destined to rescue the boy. Persuaded by Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a beautiful Tibetan, Jarrell takes on this unusual case. The rest of the plot is easy...
Parents, be wise and heed this advice: watch how your children spend their free time, because playful pursuits have a way of shaping adult occupations. Take Gary Larson. As a youngster growing up in Tacoma, Larson collected lizards, snakes, frogs, salamanders and one monkey. Aided by his older brother, he regularly flooded the backyard to create swamps. Once, for a change of pace, the Larson boys hauled sand into the basement and built a miniature Mojave complete with horned toads. Throughout it all, Larson's parents remained remarkably serene, even that day when Dad, a car salesman, came home...
...youngster growing up in the 1870s, Appleton was probably a pretty interesting place. "Wisconsin had so many circuses back then," observes Oscar Boldt, president of the Boldt Holding Corp., "and when they unloaded the elephants, there was excitement, real excitement, the sort of excitement you could feed off for months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like...