Word: teen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HELLO, YOUNG LOVER What happens when Men of a Certain Age are drawn to women of a teen...
...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...
...prompted its postponement, one of TV's several craven post-Columbine p.r. gestures--Buffy's wry, touching season ender exposed the demons in a prosperous suburb. Werewolf Oz's words after the climactic battle scene--"We survived...high school"--were a resonant caption to the year of the troubled teen...
...that harassment could have occurred without his knowing, without anyone complaining. Kids as troubled as Harris and Klebold aren't likely to stop making bombs one day and decide what they really should do is talk to an ex-jock principal about what's bugging them. And an alienated teen probably wouldn't expose his interior life during a well-attended extracurricular event. But DeAngelis says the official police report on Columbine, set for release in January, will show that the school wasn't a brutish place where cool kids humiliated outcasts every...
...guitar introduction (courtesy of guitarist Duane Koh '00) filled with feedback and distortion. The dreadlocked lead singer, Alvin McCottry '00, unfortunately sounded muffled throughout, drowned beneath a sea of distortion from the sometimes overly self-indulgent guitarists. Still, the group's drum-intensive cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" inspired manic pogoing among some of the faithful who had remained, even though their sped-up version lacked any of the slow, simmering moments that had made the original so menacing. Perhaps it was McCottry's intensity: he jumped into the crowd, as well as fell to the floor...