Word: sixteener
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...crushingly smart though, and because he knows exactly what he sounds like, he plays up the tension, pitting his intimidating bravado against his obvious insecurity. It’s the same tension that kept characters like Sal Paradise and Holden Caulfield interesting to us when we were sixteen, and Eminem is compelling for the same reasons. Certainly, the joke runs thin sometimes, and his inability to strike a balance between unabashed silliness (“Ass Like That”) and heavy handed seriousness (“Mosh”) is frustrating. But his flow is only getting better...
...summer I was sixteen, I went on a hiking trip in Washington state, and bonded with my trip-leader over “Blood on the Tracks” — Dylan’s heart-wrenching 1975 post-divorce album. I only knew a few of the songs, but my leader—bearded, wild and anti-intellectual—kept urging me to buy it. He borrowed my walkman to listen to “tangled up in blue” on Mollie’s mix tape over and over, smacking his hands on the dashboard...
...Sixteen paces...
...Under-18 team struck first, just 5:02 into the game, when Peter Mueller—a sixteen year-old listed at 6’2 and 200 pounds—beat Crimson goaltender Justin Tobe from just outside the crease...
Merritt slotted home her third goal off a feed from freshman midfielder Jaime Greenwald, finishing Harvard’s first hat trick of the season, and putting the game out of reach with sixteen minutes remaining...