Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strong intersperses these kinds of nauseating descriptions with psychological analysis. This style is reminiscent of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher. Even though she allows the reader access to the most intimate details of the people she profiles, the scenes are so repetitively horrific that...
Turn down the lights, turn on the strobe, and dress to impress, because it's Saturday night and the clubs are hopping with a whole new dance sensation. It's not quite hip-hop, nor techno, nor disco, and it is certainly not the macarena. Amid this chaos of spinning...
How do kids learn this? Usually, it's the same way Bismarck learned: having parents who show through their own behavior that persistence pays. A new book by Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption, has caused a sensation by claiming that parents matter less than peers in shaping a child...
With Slam's surprise festival success, Williams has been flooded with offers--unfortunately, most of them calling for him to play dope dealers. Instead of cashing in, he is writing a new book of verse and his own script. Following the lead of actor-singer Paul Robeson, Williams hopes to...
A crowd of 74,051, the largest in the Jaguars' four-year history, watched Jacksonville win shorthanded in the first meeting between Florida's two AFC teams. Rookie sensation Taylor left the game in the third period because of a bruised shoulder, and Pro Bowl receiver Jimmy Smith sat out...