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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...room - time to savor characters, time to let the knotty situations grow more enticingly tangled, time to enjoy a laugh if any of them are on offer. The constant hammering and yammering of this movie drives you out of involvement with its women. And then there's that perfume girl - so obviously a gold-digger, so entirely without redeeming traits. It's hard to believe that any sensible man, let alone a master of the Wall Street universe, would take such a creature out for a drink, let alone marry her, even back in 1936. She was a vulgar clich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Women: Sex Crime | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...favorite being the Swiss-educated Kim Jong Chul (though in a memoir published last year, Kim's former sushi chef, a Japanese citizen with the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, says Jong Chul, who is in his mid-20s, is out because his father once said, "he is like a little girl.") It may not matter, because the North's generals can run the country regardless of its figurehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Kim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...past four months, there have been four weighty books published on the subject, with titles like Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children and So Sexy So Soon. Most of these treatises have a similar thesis: young girls are sexually loose because they're aping behavior they see on TV or read about in magazines. And as if on cue, the media deliver a new 90210 with an oral-sex scene in the first episode; Gossip Girl comes back with billboards promoting it as MIND-BLOWINGLY INAPPROPRIATE ... and your daughter starts singing that alarmingly suggestive song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Teen Girls | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...dissatisfied with their bodies and tried to lose weight. They didn't necessarily want to be like Europeans; they just wanted to look like them. Is it possible that the situation for teens and tweens is the same? They don't want to be like the characters in Gossip Girl (only 16% of whose viewers are actually teen girls) or America's Next Top Model; they just want to look like them, to try on that identity. "Nine-year-old girls do not experience dressing up in a sexy way as a sexy thing," says Deborah Tolman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Teen Girls | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Jong Chul (though in a memoir published last year, Kim's former sushi chef, a Japanese citizen with the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, says Jong Chul, who is in his late 20s, is out because his father once said, "he is no good because he is like a little girl.") It may not matter because the North's generals can run the country regardless of its figurehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining North Korea After Kim | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

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