Word: junks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three girls in the program--Minnie R. McMahon, Yvonne Davis-Dottin and Slatin--organized a slumber party with their mentors. The group of six watched movies, ate junk food and prepared for the next program meeting in which they ran an activity...
...horizontal epidemiology that we are studying when we measure the spread of a word like memetic, docudrama or studmuffin over the Internet. Crazes among schoolchildren provide particularly tidy examples. When I was about nine, my father taught me to fold a square of paper to make an origami Chinese junk. It was a remarkable feat of artificial embryology, passing through a distinctive series of intermediate stages: catamaran with two hulls, cupboard with doors, picture in a frame--and finally the junk itself, fully seaworthy or at least bathworthy, complete with deep hold and two flat decks, each surmounted...
...with the speed of measles and pretty much the same epidemiological time course. I don't know whether the epidemic subsequently jumped to other schools (a boarding school is a somewhat isolated backwater of the meme pool). But I do know that my father originally picked up the Chinese-junk meme during an almost identical epidemic at the same school 25 years earlier. The earlier virus was launched by the school matron. Long after the old matron's departure, I had reintroduced her meme to a new cohort of small boys...
...thing that's clear from the glut of contemporary teenpix is that a lot of young talent is being wasted in gonadal junk. If only these kids could find a smart script and a director who knew how to harness their coltish appeal, they might quickly turn promise into achievement. As it happens, the wait wasn't all that long. Here is a picture that has wit, a hairpin-turn narrative, high pizazz and ensemble star quality. Ready...
ESCAPE THE PITCHMEN Sick of junk mail and sales calls during dinner? Spend a few minutes at www.populardemand.com and be free at last. The site promises to remove you from direct-mail and telemarketing lists (but, sadly, not those of e-mail spammers) at no cost. It can also tell you about good deals on stuff you're really interested in--without revealing your identity (or e-mail address) to the vendor...