Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marvel that you could write a full-page Essay about protesters, who despair of making themselves heard, without mentioning the most obvious point: we did hear their bleats. We heard, man. we heard that Bobby Seale is just a spirited kid being imposed upon, that the Chicago Seven were just fun-loving kids out for a lark, that Gene McCarthy's policy of precipitate flight from Viet Nam is best, that the Nixon Administration is a fascist dictatorship, that students own the universities and are entitled to burn them down at will, that Che Guevara was a public benefactor...
...Perhaps if every kid eligible to die in Southeast Asia put the heat on good ol' Mom and Dad, the middle-aged block of ice could be thawed a little. Even though Abraham was determined to carry out God's command and knife his own son to death, I don't think most parents would share the same degree of devotion. The concept of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public telling their son to go risk his life in a war situation (a situation few parents could adequately explain) because Nixon says so seems absurd...
...plot creaks around a 29-year-old rich kid named Elgar (Beau Bridges) who buys himself a tenement in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. His elaborate renovation plans change abruptly when he meets his new tenants, including a black free-school teacher (Melvin Stewart), a former Miss Sepia (Diana Sands), her eight-year-old son (Douglas Grant) and slightly deranged husband (Louis Gosset), and a worldly-wise den mother (Pearl Bailey) who feeds Elgar soul food and introduces him around. Friendships form fast. Elgar falls in love with a black painter and part-time go-go dancer (Marki...
...seemed to have reached a climax.... I hadn't finished my chicken yet, but everyone else was preparing to leave. There was no advance indication of what the other Negro kid said as he left. "How do I go about joining YPSL...
...JUST saw my Congressman. What a jerk!" The college kid for whose benefit the remark was made laughed. It was 85 degrees. The armpit of his three-piece suit was completely sweated through, and he sympathized equally with the girl and his suit...