Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influences. In his books Seduction of the Innocent (1954) and A Sign for Cain (1966), he contended that violence in the mass media was in part responsible for juvenile delinquency. He called television "a school for violence," and commenting on movies, he wrote, "If I should meet an unruly youngster in a dark alley. I prefer it to be one who has not seen Bonnie and Clyde." Wertham's campaign in the 1950s against comic books forced that industry to tone down crime and horror...
...E.S.T.) something new visits the Ingalls home: plague, disease, blindness and enough orphans to stock every Annie road company. For eight years the three Ingalls children have proved that with the right kind of adversity and a father like Michael Landon, you can go in there a youngster and come out a star...
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Indeed, one of the many discomfiting things about Only When I Laugh is the contrast between Mason and Kristy McNichol, playing her daughter. The youngster has an ease and grace (and a lovely physical presence) that make her scenes with Mason strictly no contest, and grant the film such warmth and human interest as it contains. Maybe Simon should consider adopting her. -By Richard Schickel
...youngster, Richard Lee Owen II loved to curl up with the discarded lawbooks he obtained when his grandfather took him along on a visit to the county courthouse. By the time he was 13, however, Owen was on the wrong side of the law, serving time at an Indiana reform school for stealing from purses during a church choir rehearsal. That was the start of a life of crime, including a bank robbery and an attempted murder, that has kept him in prison for 19 of his 35 years. But now Owen has rediscovered an old friend-the lawbook...