Word: jasone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Having secured a brown paper bag of french fries, Alex heads back outside. He wears Timberlands, baggy black jeans and a big black sweatshirt. He is very tall. He also clearly runs the show. He walks over to the curb to talk to Jason, who is sitting on a short purple-framed bike, one foot on the ground and the other on a pedal. A bunch of girls on the corner sing, at full-throttle to no one in particular, "Happy birthday dear whoever." Then a short, stocky one jumps into the middle of the gang and, turning in circles...
...Alex and Jason laugh. Jason adjusts the white bandana he wears folded like a sweatband across his forehead. A boy they call Crazylikes emerges from inside and walks to the curb. He gestures toward one of the shrieking girls, who has a bright blue comb stuck in the back of her hair...
...block back toward school. He takes off sprinting, the yellow soles of his sneakers flashing up from the pavement. As the bus pulls away from the curb, Crazylikes darts out between two parked cars and runs directly at the front of the bus, waving his arms. Alex and Jason cheer, but the bus swerves out into another lane and keeps moving. Crazylikes trudges back toward his friends. More guys come out of Angelo's. The young Spanish guy who works the counter emerges behind them and beckons Alex around to the side of the store. When Alex comes back, everyone...
...Minutes pass. Alex, Jason, Crazylikes and four of their friends set out westward down Broadway. Two ride bikes; five carry Eastpak backpacks; all wear baggy jeans--seven 15-year-old black guys sauntering toward Area Four, the East Cambridge teen center. They discuss bicycles and basketball. Jason tells the others about a kid in his class who told a teacher to shut...
Sources: Keith Clarke and Ann Ricchiazzi (NCGIA), Jason Simpson (ADL)/UC at Santa Barbara: United Nations Population Fund...