Word: teen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might say the same for the G-men. Since few of the perpetrators are old enough to vote, the alarms issued out of Washington last week began to sound as hysterical as any hacker manifesto. The White House issued a stern warning--which to a teen who craves attention is like winning the self-esteem lottery--while websites at the departments of Defense, Energy and the Interior went off-line like fbi.gov ostensibly for repairs...
Although the showier role belongs to Wyle, who ably trades the blue-blood reserve of ER's Carter for Jobs' loose-limbed swagger, the movie's secret weapon is Anthony Michael Hall, whose work here will startle viewers who recall only the nerdy teen who kept hitting on Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. "This was a huge opportunity for me," says Hall, clearly thrilled at this escape from Ex-Child Star Hell. "I saw it as an incredible gift--a chance to reinvent myself...
Bill Clinton is a canny player of political poker. In criticizing movies for their grossness, as he has in the wake of Littleton and other teen tragedies, Clinton is playing his Dan Quayle card. It's not the wrong card, but it is a low one. You can ask for movies to be gentler, a tiny bit more attentive to the power of the repeated image over the young. But after criticizing what's there, think about what's missing. Can we please have a little grandeur and depth in movies? Not of armies on parade or edifying soap operas...
...They] see me running for the White House," he said, "they don't see the house I'm running from. [When I was born,] my mama was not supposed to make it, and I was not supposed to make it. You see, I was born of a teen-age mother, who was born of a teen-age mother...
...loss of interest in friends and studies--can there be any doubt that Holden Caulfield, the dropout hero of J.D. Salinger's 1950s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, would be on Luvox, Prozac or a similar drug if he were a teenager today? No doubt whatsoever. A textbook teen depressive by current standards, Caulfield would be a natural candidate for pharmaceutical intervention, joining a rising number of adolescents whose moodiness, anxiety and rebelliousness are being interpreted as warning signs of chemical imbalances. Indeed, if Caulfield had been a '90s teen, his incessant griping about "phonies" and general hostility toward...