Word: skateboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With slangy precision, "Young Adult" novels (Y.A. to the trade) vividly portray addictions, sexual awakenings and even the nightmares of rape and incest, all within skateboard distance of the community swimming pool. Says prize-winning Author Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese): "Kids aren't just sitting there watching TV and playing video games." In fact, teen-agers appear to be buying their own books for a change. Retail giants like B. Dalton have expanded Young Adult racks in their shopping-mall stores. Books such as Rock 'n ' Roll Nights, The Divorce Express...
...employment and all-natural fabrics. They also can identify suburbanites: "It looked like an oversized praying mantis, and it flowed like a surfer. As it swept nearer, Teresa saw it was somebody in cutoffs and knee warmers, a girl because she had an elastic top. She was riding a skateboard and wearing headphones clamped over both ears. She looked like . . . something intelligent but brutal from science fiction." Peck, 48, an American who attended Oxford, echoes his colleagues in teen realism when he says, "We rarely celebrate the captains of athletic teams; the most popular girl in school or the gang...
...Klaussen should not be forced to live on the horizontal plane. The captain of the ski team is more comfortable on the inclines, whether it be climbing El Capitan or Yosemite's Half Dome, skiing Squaw Valley or Tuckerman's ravine, or even hurtling down the Rockies on a skateboard...
...traveled over one hundred miles by skateboard... We used to drive to the top of Donner Summit and come all the way down on our skateboards... We would do it at night on those four or five days near the full moon." For Klaussen mountain sports were a habitual, day-to-day activity, not relished as a special weekend treat...