Word: punkness
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...that celebrates the coming of age. For every standard-issue adolescent yearning, there is a show that explores it on the WB. For each of life's cliched ironies encountered for the first time, there is a chat room to lament it on TeenGripe.com For every pimply punk buying a pop CD, another kid with a good complexion has just released a debut album. Being a teenager these days is as effortless as being a Renaissance Man during the Renaissance. These kids have no idea how hard it is living in an era that has outgrown grownups. They just...
Ameritrade's slacker-punk pitchman, Stuart, a sharp, hilarious contrast to the suits around him, has helped sell its slogan "Believe in Yourself." Career site Monster.com is taking a subtler approach. In its now famous spot, debuted during last year's Super Bowl, bright-eyed kids recite such lines as "I want to be forced into early retirement." Says Monster CEO Jeff Taylor: "Funny's good, but you have to end up with a good, lasting impression once you grab their attention...
...roots of De la Rocha's rage are in his hometown of Irvine, Calif. He went to a mostly white high school where, as a Chicano, he seethed at racist comments about "wetbacks" made by students and teachers alike. At age 17, he saw a show by the black punk group Bad Brains, and it was "a personal revolution." De la Rocha, Morello, drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford formed Rage...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face, and only the punk kids are there to greet it. Today someone brought a tiny radio. Carrie flips...
...There's a new kid hanging out in front of school today: Max, a chubby ninth grader, has not been punk long--he's only stapled spikes to half of his denim jacket. Randy turns...