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Tonight's official balls--all 11 of them--havebeen the object of the most earnest scrambling fortickets. Outside the offices of the CollegeDemocrats of America yesterday, nearly a dozenstudents packed the lobby seeking tickets to the"youth ball." Those older and with more money willpay more, but won't necessarily escape the hassle...
Other councillors emphasizes such themes as opportunities for the city's youth. "[We must] deal with the disenchantment of so many young people of the city," said Councillor Jonathan S. Myers...
...spread through the whole building. (Are there any acoustic experts out there who can explain how a house packed with 3,125 fans could remain that quiet?) Then again, maybe it was just the adults who needed rest because the kids--and there were lots of them, mostly wearing youth hockey jackets, in attendance--had loads...
...season to be jowly. After pursuing the youth market most of the year, Hollywood devotes December to prestige films aimed not at the huge post- Christmas audience but at the senior citizens in the Motion Picture Academy. The goal is a batch of Oscar nominations; the reality is a glut of ambitious pictures that give no one a very merry Christmas. Of seven holiday movies, all but one ignore Hollywood's hard-learned rules of storytelling...
...actress Arkadina, Tyne Daly stresses monstrous self-absorption. Not for Daly the customary dotty unawareness of how she puts down her son, a would-be avant- garde playwright; each belittling gesture is calculated cruelty. As the son, Ethan Hawke solves the play's pivotal problem, foreshadowing the youth's instability and making clear why he and not his at-wit's-end beloved, Nina, commits suicide...