Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone forget that possible presidential candidate Warren Beatty [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 23] is married to the beautiful Annette Bening, who was cast as the romantic interest of widower President Michael Douglas in the movie The American President? Go for it, Warren! Perfect casting! LINDA SONES FEINBERG Lynnfield, Mass...
...women's tennis, the halter number Venus Williams wore at the U.S. Open dispelled it. The young ladies of tennis have been replaced by brassy girls with wicked strokes. The Williams sisters have created a media frenzy that hasn't been seen in American tennis since...well, since Chris Evert. Can the hair-beaded powerhouse stand up to the hair-ribboned champ...
UNIFORMS ARE IN So enthusiastic are American families about uniforms that this year they will spend $1.5 billion on them--triple what they spent just two years ago. By themselves, says Goldman, "school uniforms are not the answer to higher achievement or to closing the gap between minority and majority students." But a change in dress, particularly to a uniform, can have numerous positive effects. Students may become more self-confident and self-disciplined, less judgmental of other students, better able to resist peer pressure and concentrate on schoolwork. Jean Hartman of Long Beach, Calif., was once an opponent...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER (Bard) Americans tend to view the teenage years, from puberty to the prom, as a singular life passage. But author Thomas Hine reminds us that for most of our history, those between 13 and 19 did not move in lockstep through their education--or even attend school--and that the word teenager dates back only to 1941. "What was new about the idea of the teenager at the time the word first appeared during World War II," writes Hine, "was the assumption that all young people--regardless of their class, location or ethnicity...
BACK TO SCHOOL Students carry more stuff in backpacks these days, including laptops and athletic clothes. Doing so the wrong way, warns the American Physical Therapy Association, can lead to back pain and even scoliosis--especially for pubescent girls, who are at greater risk for curvature of the spine. APTA's advice: buy packs with wide straps (narrow ones can cut off circulation), wear both straps, and make sure the pack is no more than 15% to 20% of body weight...