Word: ber
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Miss Teen USA pageants or even The Mickey Mouse Club. They are paraded, poked, prodded and preened by over-zealous manager-parents. They are subjected to intense media scrutiny, and we wonder, “When will they break?” They are the über-teeny-boppers—adolescent artists performing for a juvenile audience—and there’s nothing new about them...
...close encounter of the dirty, underage kind when über-WASP Horatio R. Sherman ’02 went home with an unidentified and unclean girl he met at the Owl last week. Witness Brian M. Bringiz ’03 explains: “So this girl rolls up and she’s like clearly cracked-out. She’s like 4’ 10”, looked about 14, maybe 11. I think she was probably homeless. She’s trying to get with all the fellas. So I, you know, fled. Later...
...family affair: as a boy he appeared with his father in the old Wong Fei-hung dramas. The brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live in a jar. In Mismatched Couples (1985), Wo-ping plays what has to be called the Jerry Lewis role. No abasement is too extreme...
...UPHILL BATTLE . . . BUT WHO WILL FOLLOW? Singer Bono of U2 and other celebs have swarmed Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, reminding the über-monied about the under monied. Bono's cause: debt relief for poor countries. Illustration for TIME by Paul Slater...