Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would such harsh measures work? One man who insists they will not is Jerome Miller, Pennsylvania commissioner of the office of children and youth. Says he: "Locking up most juveniles is nonsense, unless you intend to keep them in jail until they're 60. The kid locked up is more likely to be trouble once he's freed." Jerry Miller, 45, a pudgy, rumpled ex-Maryknoll seminarian, has acted on that philosophy through seven tumultuous years as a juvenile administrator dedicated to keeping kids out of primitive lockups...
...Angelo believes in absolute justice but soon declines into lechery and official murder. Meanwhile the city fathers can't even clear the streets of prostitutes. A black pimp, brilliantly played in high camp by Howard Rollins Jr., asks, "Does your worship mean to gold and splay all the youth of the city?" The production wisely lets such contemporary resonances ring for themselves. The cast concentrates on turning quirks of plot into confrontations of flesh and blood...
...Ahmed Sekou Toure's Republic of Guinea, unimaginably cruel, capricious and unpredictable tortures are everyday occurrences. In tiny Equatorial Guinea, which has suffered a reign of terror since gaining independence eight years ago, political prisoners have had their eyes gouged out by torturers of the notorious Macias Youth. Other prisoners have been forced to stand for days in a pit, up to their necks in mud and water...
...here, a male friend). They had to gloss over all the hints in this version, but Newman does well with the toothless make-shift. Elizabeth Taylor doesn't deliver the performance I expected from the legend, but those fond remembrances may have hailed back mostly to her more svelte youth. And both actors have to do running battle with a perverse Williams creation: the improbably dumb brother and his wife, with their five florid brats--made all the more unbearable by the wonders of film close-up. This one needs the teeth back...
Travolta's approach to his career, however, is very much his own. Despite his youth, he has been acting for ten years. Unlike Winkler, he does not spend his energies talking about the Yale Drama School or other heavy topics. Instead, he has shrewdly consolidated his reputation by recording a bland rock album tailored to subteens. Let Her In, Travolta's biggest hit on the album, is now No. 5 on the Cashbox charts...