Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would think this liberation would make the sport slightly less laborious. Not at all. Skating remains one of the most arduous athletic endeavors a child can pursue. To be an Olympic-caliber competitor in any sport requires tremendous devotion at an early age, but a youngster who desires to be the best on ice faces special demands. Serious training can easily cost $40,000 a year in coaching fees, costumes, skates and living expenses. The little prodigy who can already do a double flip rarely lives near one of the dozen or so shrines where the top coaches preside: either...
...youngster played Lazy Day, a Sunday stroll of a song, with a drowsy trumpet and laid-back raps by Kobie Powell. In the background were R. and B. vocals, gliding over the song like a bird though a blue sky. "Isn't it great?" the fan said. "US 3 takes jazz-rap to a new level of sophistication. The Blue Note jazz label let the producers use its entire catalog as source material...
...recommended that Santa straighten out his leg, letting the youngster sit upon it as he brings it back. Practice this. It is known as the Santa leg lift...
...rated movies, Restic became a special agent. Working mostly alone, he penetrated enemy lines, merged with the masses of Europeans fleeing Hitler's terror, and relayed information back to the Allies. Putting his life on the line several times while dealing with double agents, the brave, hardworking youngster earned the overwhelming respect of his superiors...
Whatever the case, no youngster has lately, or perhaps ever, been placed in more deadly peril than 10-year-old Vito (Manuel Colao) in Flight of the Innocent. And no director has more vividly realized the plight of an innocent than youthful Carlo Carlei (who wrote the screenplay with Gualtiero Rosella). One fine warm day in Calabria, in southern Italy, Vito's entire family (and a boy they have mysteriously sequestered in a cave nearby) is massacred, and Vito narrowly escapes execution at the hands of a scarfaced man who will stalk him (and his nightmares) for the rest...