Word: preteen
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...northern city of Milan has decided that the festa is over. Citing some alarming statistics about preteen alcohol abuse, the city has imposed a strict new local law that goes beyond the legislation that currently allows only those over 16 to buy booze. For the first time in Italy, the parents of anyone underage caught drinking and anyone who supplies someone under 16 with alcohol will face punishment, with a fine...
...bildungsroman—but the storyline quickly diverges from cliché to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie’s perspective, struggles to maintain a balance between reliability and believability, and, in satisfying the former, sometimes compromises the latter. Genie is a precocious preteen with a high IQ and a whole host of anger issues. He was held back a year after he punched his fifth grade art teacher. He has no friends. In truth, it’s hard for him to communicate with people at all. When vandalism strikes the local retirement home, Genie?...
Neither garlic nor holy water could ward off the country’s taste for vampires this holiday season. The vampire/human couple at the heart of Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful Twilight book series stole the hearts of preteen girls nationwide—studios rushed to produce a movie version, news magazines splashed headlines like “A New J.K. Rowling?”, and Amazon reported that it had sold enough copies of the fourth “Twilight” book to scale Mt. Everest eight times...
...older child? When a newborn or infant is abandoned in a hospital, there's a good chance that it isn't going to remember the experience. There's not going to be any significant consequences over the life of that child. However, when a teenager or a preteen is left at a hospital and abandoned in that way, they understand exactly what is going on. There is an extra level of trauma that is endured...
...raunchy opening minutes of “Role Models,” Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) chug energy drinks, verbally assault a preteen, and note that their green-tinged urine looks “like Shrek’s piss.” It’s easy to assume that the rest of the movie will play out like any other flick about emotionally stunted man-children and their misadventures. Yet while “Role Models” is indeed formulaic, the film is saved by a number of hilariously memorable side characters?...