Word: mischief
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves) and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though...
Mike dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player -- but hey, it was "Mischief Night," the eve before Halloween, and the 14-year-old had another sport on his mind: Jew baiting. Using a can of shaving cream, he sprayed the words F--- YOU JEW BAGEL, without the dash, on the garage of Eugene Markovitz, 67, the oldest and most prominent rabbi in Clifton, N. J. Joining the fun were Mike's pals Johnny (whose best friend, he says, is Jewish) and Peter (whose grandfather rescued Holocaust Jews in Holland). I HATE JEWS, scrawled one boy. GO BACK TO YOUR...
...dozen telephone lines at the cramped office of Talkline/Kids Line in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ring softly every few minutes. Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director...
...children who need therapy receives it; poor and minority youngsters get the least care. Treatment is expensive, and even those with money and insurance find it hard to afford. But another reason is that too often the signals of distress are missed or put down to normal mischief...
Those close brushes with martyrdom gave Castro and Gaddafi not just new incentives for making mischief against the U.S. but also new prestige in the eyes of others who have their own grievances, of which some may even be legitimate. When he plays Goliath, Uncle Sam elicits boos for himself and applause for the would-be Davids of the Third World...