Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to visit with them any longer. He then called his mother to tell her what he had done and calmly waited for the police -a grisly rehearsal of last week's murder and confession. After treatment in several mental hospitals, he was released by the California Youth Authority, though it is still not clear...
...unwanted child who was kicked out of kindergarten for being "incorrigible," Bunyard also came under the California Youth Authority early in life, but he graduated to more severe correctional institutions. That he should never have been released was once strongly implied by Bunyard himself. In 1967, as he walked out of the San Mateo honor camp, he told an officer: "I don't want to go out there. I feel like a puppy that you're putting on the freeway. I don't think I can make it out there." Eventually the puppy turned into a monster...
...Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) yesterday ruled that domestic airlines must discontinue all family and youth fares by June...
THOSE FEW important films that are also important moneymakers usually encourage quick, cheap, and successive imitation. In the sixties, the youth film and the tepid sex/promiscuity film became the obvious examples of such industry-wide stagnation. More elusive, perhaps, was the much wider range of films which merged violence with psychodrama after the model of Hitchcock's Psycho -- formula films where violence was often the only substance, films that Hitchcock wouldn't even deign to sneeze at. Exploiters like Strait-Jacket, the 1964 axe-murder movie, led later to box-office hits like The Boston Strangler (still playing in Boston...
...Palma made Greetings, a clever film about draft resistance that stood out above the typical youth films then being made. He has had as much trouble obtaining backing for films as most talented young directors, but he insists that Sisters is a film he had wanted to do for a long time, not a piece of commercial hackwork. The film appears under the American International Pictures label, and though that company is known mainly for its slick promotion of cheap sex, De Palma insists that the choice of a distributor was a business decision unrelated to his artistic intentions...