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...Crush on You. Many heroines in these confections never get to the first kiss. For boys there are thrillers like Your Code Name Is Jonah in Bantam's Choose Your Own Adventure series. These are not traditional adventure narratives. Like Dungeons and Dragons, they allow teen and preteen readers to select their own plots. In The Abominable Snowman, for instance, the reader is a Mount Everest climber searching for the yeti with a friend named Carlos. The friend, however, is missing. "If you decide to search for Carlos, turn to page 5," instructs the book. "If you decide that...
...column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism is not the major cause of economic deprivation for blacks. Help-wanted ads have executives soliciting young male proteges and "preteen women...
Against a background of white tablecloths and candlelight, preteen girls who sign up for "White Gloves and Party Manners" are instructed in such arcane lore as curtsying ("When you are presented to the Queen, your head should scrape the ground"). "Blue Blazer" seminars for boys omit the candlelight in favor of a clubroom atmosphere. At the Belk Tyler store in Rocky Mount, N.C., a White Gloves class, which opened in September, has been "a phenomenal success," according to Operations Manager Fred Combs. Says he: "Children are learning things they'd never learn at home...
...Danielle intended to be the Brooke Shields of the preteen crowd? Absolutely not, protests Martin K. Greenfield, president of New Jersey-based Tom Fields, Ltd., which makes Tinkerbell products. Danielle, he contends, is more wholesome than sexy. Says Danielle: "Brooke's style sells, but I'm not like her." Tinkerbell launched the children's beauty-aid business nearly 30 years ago, but it has always refused to sell eye shadow and rouge, which it considers improper for young girls...
Blythe Danner is an exquisitely accomplished actress, but she is not arrogant enough at the beginning to provide a contrast with her vulnerability at the end. As Tracy's precociously sophisticated preteen sister, Cynthia Nixon captures just the right air of artifice and gives the most assured performance of the evening...