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Life lurches from sweet and fresh to embarrassing and awful (much like adolescence). The story lines are bad teen-soap retreads--Ben has a fling with a teacher, and Dino catches his mother having an affair, both plots straight from Dawson's Creek Season 1. But its characters are much more believable--Dino, Ben and Jonathan aren't miniature adults, they're kids. When Dino finds his mom cheating, he's not just angry; he's scared, above all for his dad (D.B. Sweeney), a good-hearted sad sack who hates his pencil-pushing job. Fox's The O.C. transcended...
...commenting on my stories. You should know that TIME writers rarely see the readers? comments on their magazine stories; letters go to the Letters Department, except for those addressed specifically to the writer. At TIME.com, you need merely click on a writer?s byline to pick a fight or fling a bouquet. I get the message...
...their rough-textured, gnarly, worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling words upon the page in heavy, meaningful daubs. Now, just as they did back then, it's the second bunch who get to sit at the cool kids' table...
Having returned from a fall semester of sexual liberation in Rio De Janeiro, Ruth C. Havel ’05 recently dared her one time fling Max D. Shackleton ’05 to venture into her new bag of sexual tricks. Never one to shy from a challenge, Shackleton delved into the bag of tricks only to find that it contained an eight-inch strap-on vibrator. To his credit, Shackleton took the news like a man (and the vibrator like a prison bitch...
...displaying. Due to their aversion to intimacy, they tend to consider the men in their lives as disposable as their latest fashion trends. Samantha’s brazen avocation of the “zipless screw” and Carrie’s insensitive decision to put a passionate fling above a serious relationship, both promote a sex life that is unattached, uncaring and unhealthy. While their uninhibited promiscuity does help to mitigate sexual inequality, it is ironically regressive. When the characters treat their sex partners as dispensable, they are stooping to the same lowly player behavior that women have...