Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Rock 'n roll music was a great art form. When I was a little kid, I had a lot of heroes- but none were politicians. The first was Ted Williams and the second Elvis. Elvis Presley could turn people on when they didn't know how to otherwise," DiCara said...
Zuckerman, who looks a little like the Sundance Kid. wants to go to Law School, preferably at Harvard. He doesn't think his athletic career will help too much, though. "The criteria that got you into college and the criteria that get you into law school are different," he said. "You can't just be a jock with slightly above average grades...
...Smith." Bud implored, "all America's behind you, kid. From the ghettos to the penthouses, they're riding on this shot," Smith made the point, and for a moment, Collins was rigid with hope. Later, when it was over, I watched Bud as he filed his story over the telephone, clad in his winter uniform-double-breasted navy blazer, party-dude striped pants, de Bergerat shoes. He seemed calm and in control. But it would have killed him to hear what Stolle and Newcombe were saying just a few feet away...
...understands the unique agonies of metropolitan adolescence. The reluctant hero of the piece, Paul (Barry Gordon), is a shy, bright kid trying to get through a particularly difficult mid-teen summer on Long Island. His parents have enough money, he gets to use the car and the speedboat, but he is still vaguely dissatisfied. The root of his trouble is hardly unique: girls. To him they seem frivolous yet desirable, brainless but captivating. They all appear to share one dominating characteristic: inaccessibility...
...kids forced to go to schools that are jails and deprived of any possibility to improve their lives, fighting back comes naturally. A friend of mine who works in a PBH project in the South End told me about a group of kids who had found a black kid one night, poured gasoline on him and set him afire. In fact in New York, "Bum burning," is good sport. The point is that there's no need to convince these people that they have to fight. They're already doing...