Word: preteen
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David Gordon Green's debut film, George Washington, was a painterly group portrait of preteen anguish. Now that America's most gifted young auteur is 27, he's graduated to kids in their late teens and early 20s but with the same desperate, comic, always human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just...
Cross-legged on the carpet, Maribel Hernandez ’04 is flipping through photo albums, searching for a picture to run with her FM profile. There’s a preteen Hernandez with her family just after they emigrated from Mexico, and Hernandez smiling beside Madeline Albright. That’s Hernandez grinning wildly, her face painted red and white with high school spirit, and her with Bill Clinton last spring. She says her family in Mexico was the most excited about Clinton. “They still talk about it,” she says, laughing...
...Fineman P.R.: Top 10 P.R. Blunders. Martha Stewart's mess got nosed out by Abercrombie & Fitch, for its marketing of thong underwear to preteen girls, which prompted boycotts by profamily groups...
...face of it, a broomstick and a double bass don't seem to have much in common, but when both are employed as flying implements for bespectacled preteen orphans, similarities tend to emerge. The broomstick, as many know, is a mode of transportation for Harry Potter, star of the book series by British author J.K. Rowling. The musical instrument is used to similar effect by Tanya Grotter, protagonist of a popular book series by Russian author Dmitry Yemets. Tanya first showed up in August in Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, which sold 100,000 copies in Russia. Like...
...French orphans search for their faraway home. Doesn't sound like much, but this story of preteen love, devotion and possession was the find of the festival--a work of seamless art and broken heart--and a tonic to movie lovers bummed out by a tragic anniversary...