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Skateboarding may be all the rage in places like trendy Southern California, but in Madison, Wis., it is definitely on the outs. Two recent accidents, one when an inebriated skateboarder sailed through a shopping-mall store window at 1:30 a.m., have the Madison police department and some city council members up in arms. Various punitive and restrictive measures are under consideration, including a proposal that would subject skateboarders who are weaving suspiciously to a Breathalyzer test, the same one given to Wisconsin's automobile drivers. In Madison, it seems, some stiff fines may soon await stiff skateboarders. While...
...massive or petite, but it is always graceful. The face, stripped of its old layers of makeup, looks more natural. The frame, deprived of some adipose tissue, looks more sinuous. It is a body made for motion: for long, purposeful strides across the backcourt, through the mall, into the boardroom. It is a body that speaks assurance, in itself and in the woman who, through will power and muscle power, has created it. It is not yet, and may never be, for everybody, but for many men this feminine physical assurance can be galvanizing; there can be an allure...
Teen lit: sex, drugs and divorce on the shopping-mall rack...
...Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese): "Kids aren't just sitting there watching TV and playing video games." In fact, teen-agers appear to be buying their own books for a change. Retail giants like B. Dalton have expanded Young Adult racks in their shopping-mall stores. Books such as Rock 'n ' Roll Nights, The Divorce Express and Are You in the House Alone?, wrapped up in catchy cover art, are moving faster than Pac-Man manuals...
Secrets of the Shopping Mall, award-winning Author Richard Peck's ninth Y.A., satirizes teen class structure and cliquishness. Teresa and Barney, a pair of inner-city runaways, discover a society of boys and girls living secretly in a department store. This "Lord & Taylor of the Flies" is surrounded by specialty shops like Audio Jungle, the Tennis Connection and a place advertising CANDLES IN SHAPES YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF. There, the urban dropouts learn the value of independent thought, honest employment and all-natural fabrics. They also can identify suburbanites: "It looked like an oversized praying mantis...