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...Francisco during the intensely self-indulgent late-seventies, "Diary" documents Minnie's first long-term love affair, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen. Unfortunately it happens to be with her mother's boyfriend, Monroe. While much of the book contains typical adolescent interests - writing poetry, wondering at her changing body, obsessing over sex, and speculating about her future - it centers around this secretive, destructive relationship. Trapped between hurting her mother and feeling in love with Monroe, Minnie writes increasing desultory passages. In August she writes, "I wish everyone was as horny as I am ... I love cute guys...
Gerrity finished with four goals and five players each scored two, a typically balanced effort for the Crimson in an unusually high-scoring affair. Tselentis stood his ground in the shootout, amassing 13 saves in a game the participants won’t soon forget...
...would figure that the barbecue that Senator Tim Johnson threw a few weeks ago in Madison, S.D., would be a typical small-town affair. Two hundred citizens showed up for food and a chance to ask questions of their Senator. But so did a BBC camera crew, a Japanese newspaper reporter, a TV team from Italy and the Washington bureau chief of the Economist...
...music video sequences, each one carrying the mark of MTV. Even Starlight Records was a beacon of hope to young women. Through her work as Jerrica the CEO, Jem showed young girls that the booming big business world of the ’80s was not a male-only affair...
...succumb to cynicism, Reich had told the college students jammed into Science Center A. But cynicism, especially where politics is concerned, is the bulwark of our generation. What else could protect us from the political scandals of our youth—from the dimly-recalled Iran-Contra affair, from Bill Clinton’s indiscretions, from the muddle of the 2000 presidential election? I have been a cynic since the onset of adolescence—have been proud of my cynicism, have recognized it for the sturdy rampart it is, have smiled wryly as it, undented, has deflected disappointment. Expect...