Word: teen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambiguous statements can be interpreted in way too many ways. At Harvard, they're notorious for ending relationships before they even begin. Teen FM's advice: suck it up and be direct. Say something like: "I find you quite attractive, intelligent and funny. I would like to get to know you better. Will you go out with me tomorrow night?" There's nothing ambiguous about this statement and so as long as he/she doesn...
Back in the day, sometime before adopting a stylish sense of ironic detachment, today's collegiate sophisticates paid reverence to teen idols. In that angstful era when first kisses were still wishes, when cuffed jeans, jelly bracelets and crimped hair were still in, the children of the 80s absorbed Duran Duran, Madonna and Tiffany...
Since the halcyon days of junior high, though, teen idols have deteriorated from wholesome sitcom characters and 80s excess into the over hyped likes of the Spice Girls, Mariah Carey, Hanson, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Backstreet Boys. Strangely enough, the Spice Girl's teeny-bopper fans notice no implicit contradiction between one of their role models proclaiming the mantra "Girl Powah" and then posing nude for Playboy...
Rachel J. Eisenhaure '02 says, "When I was younger, [male teen idols] used to actually look male. Now they're androgynous. Like Hanson. The first time I saw them, I thought they were girls, especially the middle one." Today's boy wonders look more and more like someone's little brother (or sister, for that matter) than bastions of masculinity. In the past, Elvis had his muscled pelvic gyrations and the members of Duran Duran, under all the eye shadow and leather, were still unquestionably...
...harsh and fickle world of teen chic, kings are crowned and deposed every fifteen minutes. MC Hammer's shiny balloon pants soon popped and Vanilla Ice thawed from chill to slush in a matter of days. The New Kids on the Block lasted only as long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while...