Word: preteen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until now. What once seemed like a passing fad for preteen boys has grown into a global moneymaking machine that is gobbling up some of the most creative talents in Hollywood and tapping the coffers of media and communications conglomerates eager to get in on the action. Video games rake in $5.3 billion a year in the U.S. alone, about $400 million more than Americans spend going to the movies. Globally, game revenues exceed $10 billion each year, and the worldwide sales of a single hit can top $500 million. Last week players from Times Square to Paris to Tokyo...
Over the past decade, video-game companies have struggled to extend the market beyond that audience of preteen boys. Games built around characters such as Barbie and the Little Mermaid are clearly pitched to girls. On the other end of the spectrum are sports games like John Madden Football (an early Trip Hawkins hit) designed to give older boys and men an excuse to extend their game-playing habits well into adulthood...
Maybe Jackson is, emotionally, a preteen, getting his wish of an intimate slumber party. His behavior onstage suggests as much: the infamous crotch- grabbing seems as spontaneous as an infant investigating itself. But he is also an adult, 35 this week, and any boy's mother might foresee problems of propriety in letting a man bunk with her boy. Then again, the rich are different, and these are rich, nearly famous people. The mother's second husband is a rental-car magnate. The father is co-author of the script for one of the summer's sillier comedies, and supposedly...
...Never mind the fact that Cambridge is equipped with its own historical landmarks, theaters and neighborhoods. An anthology of tales about 8-hour organic chemistry labs, lunches in the Pit with preteen skin-heads and idle afternoons lingering over coffee and croissants at Au Bon Pain, do not a complete Harvard Summer School Extension student make...
...gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone lines. "Nearly every correspondent has his story of being robbed at gunpoint, usually by preteen kids," reports Wilde...