Word: preteen
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...hoping the Spice Girls are history. Well, alas, they are. The bustier-busting sloganeering they purveyed is the touchstone for much of what passes for commercial feminism nowadays, especially the kind marketed to the demographic group the Spices are proudly empowering: preteen and teenage girls. Or "grrrls," as that tiresome battle growl goes. Is this the future of feminism...
...Never mind the fact that Cambridge is equipped with its own historical landmarks, theaters and neighborhoods. An anthology of tales about eight-hour organic chemistry labs, lunches in the Pit with preteen punks and idle afternoons lingering over coffee and croissants at Au Bon Pain does not a complete Harvard Summer School Extension student make...
...this looking for Leo would be O.K. if I could escape him at Casa Quittner. But I can't. My daughters walk around with their noses buried in Leo biographies. They slather their walls with his glossies, making their bedrooms look like preteen minimum-security prison cells. Worse, they know he's out there on the Web somewhere, everywhere, and they force me at whine-point to find him. Which explains why I was online the other night, a daughter on each knee, trying to avoid the king of Leo sites, www.dicaprio.com "Rumor has it," Zoe read aloud, "that Playgirl...
...those of us who don't yet have too many wedding anniversaries or funerals to commemorate the demarcations of our own personal histories, holidays offer a rare opportunity for adding a dramatic subtext to the calendar. At Halloween, for example, we sneak about, looking up at the stars, comparing preteen trick or treating expeditions with our current pranks...
...responsible for her new subdued look, retreated to the Old Ebbitt Grill for dinner, where Jones sipped white wine and, later, champagne, ate ravioli, smoked a string of cigarettes and invited three reporters to join her table. "I feel great," she told TIME. (She autographed the napkins of three preteen girls who had just finished a tour of the White House. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT. YOU'RE SO CUTE was her inscription.) Earlier in the day, Carpenter-McMillan had hinted that there might be a press conference after the deposition. When none transpired, Clinton's team took...