Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Denmark's heiress apparent, Princess Margrethe, carefully curbs any tendencies toward royal posturing in her two-year-old son, Prince Frederik. During his afternoon strolls, he likes to slosh in puddles like any other toddler. Even so, passers-by cannot help but note that whoever that kid is in the gutter near the Amalienborg Palace, he sits there as if he owned the place...
...Alka-Seltzer commercials, has overdone a good thing. Mrs. Poached Oysters has returned with a heart-shaped meat loaf, and one of the latest VW ads is a singularly unfunny parody of the old Mr. Wizard show. The program, featuring a science teacher and a questioning kid, died so long ago that few viewers will get the joke. Most of the successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines of the men behind the animation, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding (TIME...
...Kid Stuff. Surprisingly few parents have objected. For one thing, no one has yet been prosecuted under the ordinances. For another, the Detroit area is currently undergoing a wave of public frustration at the inability of many parents to control the activities of their offspring. "We're constantly running into kids wandering in the streets after midnight and getting into trouble and raising hell," says Joseph Brennan, the West Bloomfield Township attorney. "Their parents don't know and don't care where they...
...minor's malicious damage up to $1,500, or making their children wards of the court. Neither method worked well, partly because officials were loath to punish middle-class parents. As a result, parents tended to be tolerant about offspring misbehavior. "Their attitude was that it's kid stuff," says Chief Richardson. "Now that attitude changes when the police say 'If it happens again, you're the one in trouble because of the kid stuff...
...hated plant. William West, a crane operator in a coil plant at Braddock, Pa., for example, brings home $100 a week, and he sees no way that he can finance a college education for his eight-year-old son. West asks: "What kind of a future does my kid have when you can't even get a job with a high school education?" In some blue collar neighborhoods, the high school dropout rate reaches 30%?the continuation of a cycle that locks the sons into the same working class as their fathers...