Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast, they say. What about television, the movies, the nightly news? A kid who can't tell the difference between blowing up a computerized freak and taking Dad's high-powered rifle out to the schoolyard, says marketing director Mike Breslin, 25, might not have got the best parenting...
...Alanis Morissette's big hit of a couple of years ago, You Oughta Know, to have found the sex nestled in the lyric. But it's more than just movies and television and news. Adolescent curiosity about sex is fed by a pandemic openness about it--in the schoolyard, on the bus, at home when no adult is watching. Just eavesdrop at the mall one afternoon, and you'll hear enough pubescent sexcapades to pen the next few episodes of Dawson's Creek, the most explicit show on teen sexuality, on the WB network. Parents, always the last to keep...
Even if kids don't watch certain television shows, they know the programs exist and are bedazzled by the forbidden. From schoolyard word of mouth, eight-year-old Jeff in Chicago has heard all about the foul-mouthed kids in the raunchily plotted South Park, and even though he has never seen the show, he can describe certain episodes in detail. (He is also familiar with the AIDS theme of the musical Rent because he's heard the CD over and over.) Argentina, 16, in Detroit, says, "TV makes sex look like this big game." Her friend Michael, 17, adds...
Gore and his allies, backed by considerable polling, say taxpayers are more than willing to pay a small amount each month to guarantee their children a place in the digital economy. "If they want this fight, bring it on," says a Gore aide with a taunting schoolyard wave. "Politicians who are against this are going to seem like they are against the library or the telephone...
...idea in the early '90s that the response would be so great. We believe that if we are to see America's young people come to Christ and America turn around, it's going to happen through our schools, not our churches." Once a religious scorched-earth zone, the schoolyard is suddenly fertile ground for both Vine and Branches...