Word: goths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days after the shooting, the opportunistic pundits have played their hands to maximum advantage, trying to offer the most insightful explanation for the events in Colorado. When it was revealed that the killers listened to the music of Marilyn Manson and played the game Doom, the pundits argued that Goth rock music and graphic video games ought to be restricted because they insight violence. Psychologists have taken to the airwaves to talk about the effect of TV violence on youth...
...place as the boutique itself. THE GOTHIC COMMUNITY IN NO WAY CONDONES THE USE OF VIOLENCE, it read. WE ARE APPALLED BY THE KILLINGS AND BY THE INFERENCE THAT THE MURDERERS BELONGED TO OUR CULTURE. Inside, owner Malaise Graves lamented the spotlight the Littleton killings had suddenly thrown on Goth culture. "I'm afraid this violent stereotyping of us is only going to get worse now," she sighed...
Parents across America can try to have more control over their children's lives. Legislators left and right can put new restrictions on the Internet. Trench coats and so-called "Goth" wear (which have actually been popular without incident for years) can be banned from school dress codes. The government can issue even more vouchers for kids to be yanked out of public high school and thrown into debatably better private schools...
...guilt is uncomfortable for America, which prefers vague, generalized culprits less offensive to its smiley-face sensibilities -- and where tales of childhood beating are somehow supposed to sway the jury in the trial of Charles Ng, who tortured and murdered 11 people. Thus such intangibles as the Internet, Goth culture and "The Basketball Diaries" (which was pulled from video store shelves Thursday by MGM) will all take their lumps, as Ozzy Osbourne and "Natural Born Killers" did before. But at least two homes in Littleton will not be able to escape the terrible burden of being the exact place where...
...action centers on Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl), a shy Goth chick attending the very same high school that Carrie (whose relationship to Rachel is revealed mid-film) burned down so many years ago. As it turns out, Rachel harbors the very same telekinetic power Carrie did--a frightening fact understood only by the school guidance counselor, Sue Snell (Amy Irving), who also happens to be the sole survivor of the original film...