Word: dicaprio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour-long speech ranging from barbed critiques of Harvard's professors--whom she decried for postmodernism--to discussion of the enigmatic physical beauty of Leonardo DiCaprio, Paglia said she sees contemporary America as a mesh between the Judeo-Christian religious tradition and pre-Christian paganism...
Paglia even finds the pagan artistic tradition's expression in teen-aged girls' bacchanalian frenzies for Leonardo DiCaprio and the Hanson brothers...
Vili Fualaau is a rather big teen but not a muscular hulk. He has recently experimented with a mustache, and it's a little wispy. His voice has deepened, and he's now about 5 ft. 8 in. His appeal is more Leonardo DiCaprio than Ben Affleck, but mostly he's an average kid--which is to say, he's extraordinary in his own way. Born in Hawaii to parents who emigrated from Western Samoa, he loves art and music, and when strangers come by to meet him--and many, many strangers want to meet him these days...
...sick of that Leo DiCaprio. Bad enough he's on the cover of every teen magazine on the planet. Now he's invaded my home page--and my home. Ever since Titanic set sail, "DiCaprio" has been the most searched-for word on Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s website, relegating the Coke and Pepsi of the search-word business--"sex" and "Bill Gates"--to also-rans. Leo searches are especially frenzied from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Schoolgirls coming home, I figure, as the sweet spot of the time zone rolls west...
...somehow I couldn't forget it. The whole Leo thing is just too big, too disturbing. I called Darrell Gaskins, proprietor of the site--which describes itself as the "Completely Unofficial" DiCaprio home page--hoping that he had become as Leo logy as I have. Not a chance...