Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most Halloweens, warm weather and a full moon would have brought hundreds of Cambridge youngster onto the streets in search of a trick or treat...
Ripley's signals a small trend among new shows to package a little educational value and, indeed, to use school as a significant backdrop. Voyagers!-exclamation marks appear to be a la mode this year-even ends with a plug to send the youngsters out to the library, where they can get the full scoop on some of the history the show has skimmed. A sort of hybrid of You Are There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment...
...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...