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...totally eye to eye on that one (as long as I don't remind her that he's closer to my age than hers). Luckily, we've been able to skirt such deal breakers as tattooing and body piercing. So far. But my self-image as a relatively cool mom unraveled like a cheap slip last month in the lingerie department of Lord & Taylor, where we were doing some back-to-school shopping. The bottom-line point of contention: underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thing About Thongs | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...daughter made it very clear that I just didn't get it. Why did I not grasp that one couldn't be seen in the girls' locker room sporting those packaged bikini underpants from Jockey or Hanes? Granny pants is what some kids call them. "Mom," my daughter wearily explained, "basically, every girl at school is wearing a thong." The only viable alternative, one that my daughter favored, was an item called boyshorts, a low-riding pair of short shorts loosely, or should I say tightly, based on Britney's stagewear. Either way, it was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thing About Thongs | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

Angelo is the only character in this film with more than one-and-a-half dimensions, but a couple other cast members make the most out of the caricatures they play. As Lina, Mary Walsh finds humor as Nino’s widowed mom and possible love child of Joan Rivers and one unbelievably drunk Sophia Loren, whose love for her son is topped only by her love of one-upping family friends Gino and Maria...

Author: By Marissa R. Robillard, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Film Review | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...have had somewhat less success in convincing perfect strangers to take the leap and say hello. Upon explaining this dilemma to my mom, she asked why I just didn’t take the initiative and say hi first. My first reaction to this most reasonable observation was to curse my mother and her damned logic in a tearful outburst, much as I did after she suggested my problems securing a date to the junior prom might be remedied by showering on a more regular basis. After collecting myself, though, I decided to do what I do with most...

Author: By P.l. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Say | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...When I go home, most of my friends are in sororities,” Tennessee native Jennifer H. Bennett ’06 said. “My mom is a Chi Omega. We don’t have it here so I don’t think she’ll be too upset...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Sorority Begins Recruiting | 10/1/2003 | See Source »

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