Search Details

Word: teen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...premiere of Rosie: The Devil in My Head, a film from Belgium directed by Patrice Toye. We witness the story of Rosie, a 13-year-old determined to make her mother Irene happy. Irene, however, is insecure about her status as a 27-year-old mother of a teen and insists on masquerading as Rosie's older sister in public. Rosie is fully aware of the lovers who traipse in and out of her mother's life, and to make sense of the confusion at home, she turns to a devoted boyfriend named Jimi who promises he'll always...

Author: By By SUSAN Yeh, | Title: Cinemanic | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the teen comedy "10 Things I Hate About You" is keeping the Bard's spirit alive by basing its plot loosely--very loosely--on "The Taming of the Shrew." Amidst the discussion of Prada backpacks and prom dates, if you listen closely enough, you might hear a few snatches of William's immortal verse. All of which goes to show us that more than four centuries after his first play was performed, Shakespeare stays with us as a writer for all seasons and all topics. With the help of a cool web site from MIT (www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare) which allows...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: 435 Candles | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Minutes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate" (effeme) or "fuck them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAME IN THE NAME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Meredith B. Osborn '02 was labelled "the feminist" in the January issue of Teen People, a magazine even stupider than Maxim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAXIM MEETS MEREDITH | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...sense of awe is perhaps strongest as young children, when nearly everything is exciting because it is new and bigger than we are. This sense subsides over time, and as we enter our teen years it becomes uncool to be impressed by anything. The uncertainty and tentativeness which underlie one's sense of wonder are still present, but they become masked, as teens embrace a disaffected, more-ambivalent-than-thou stance...

Author: By Adam R. Kovacevich, | Title: Where Art Thou, Wonder? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next