Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REALITY FEST was not a hardened, jaded assortment of eighties youth out of the pages of Less Than Zero or Bright Light, Big City. There was a jubilant esprit de corps that arose from the irony of the situation. Here was a new twist on an old and no longer meaningful pastime--"mass bakage" in the thinly disguised form of an idealism dead for 20 years. The festival offered fresh entertainment in the mild lampooning of flower power, a perfect showcase for cynically irreverent eighties...
Reichstein said that an attempted filmed interrogation of Gennady on the Hatch letter, a visit from a member of the Supreme Soviet, and the publication of an article in the Moscow Evening News claiming that Natalia was corrupting the minds of Soviet youth, all suggest that the couple may face imminent arrest...
...bear hugs, "fraternal kisses" and reminiscences of the good old days. "I haven't seen you in 33 years," said Hu as he embraced the East German party chief in Peking's Zhongnanhai compound. Ho- necker presented Hu with a photograph taken during their last meeting at a Communist youth congress in Rumania 33 years...
...biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung to the ideals of youth...
...although not, in Tabori's rendering, a very likable one. The most interesting performances come from Michael Countryman as a diffident rich boy who spends years under the hero's sway and Peter Friedman as an austere Scot who spends years resisting it. Countryman portrays the sort of unflashy youth who hangs around his brighter classmates but inevitably is relegated to the business chores -- for which he demonstrates an acumen far better suited to adult life than their verbal fireworks. The slow ripening of his self- confidence and, therefore, his sexuality provides the play's time line, establishing the passage...