Word: preteen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very nature of the story reveals these differences. Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) is a sober, industrious accountant who's just passed 40 and can rightly be called a successful man. He has a wife and preteen daughter, and has recently bought a house; and to pay the mortgage, he's been working even more diligently than usual. But it seems he's not happy. Night after night he commutes home, and each night, at a certain stop, he sees the embodiment of his vague yearnings--a beautiful woman who comes to the window of a dance studio, looking out with...
They won't be alone. Nearly two-dozen CD-ROMs aimed at preteen girls will be released this fall by companies with names like Girl Games and Her Interactive. It's a market that has been all but ignored in favor of the seemingly bottomless appetite of boys and young men for so-called twitch games, like the bloody, light-speed shoot-'em-ups Quake and Doom. Why the sudden interest in what young women may want? In a word: Barbie. Mattel last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once...
...Headed Girl's intricate social sphere lies her even murkier "inner life." This is the purview of Purple Moon's second line of games, Secret Paths. The debut title, Secret Paths in the Forest, is a gorgeously illustrated adventure game whose players take soul-baring journeys that are essentially preteen female versions of Robert Bly. The game begins with girls gathering in a tree house to talk Issues: one girl doesn't think she's pretty enough, another isn't getting along with her siblings, and so on. Purple Moon misses no chance to add layers of complexity...
...film in 1977. I thought the scenes dragged in comparison to the manic action of today's sci-fi extravaganzas. I realized that not a single adult in the theater felt the way he did when he saw the movie for the first time. Not a single preteen managed to make it through without suppressing some yawns. The story of the good guys' triumph is too slow for the MTV attention span. So much has changed since 1977, when I sat between my parents watching the original! KENT MAY Idyllwild, California...
...circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they and their parents had the energy and resources. "There's a new pageant popping up all the time," says V. J. LaCour, publisher of Pageant Life, a Sacramento quarterly with a circulation of 60,000. "The reason for their existence...