Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirdly, one of Potter's best friends is an incredibly smart girl named Hermione--a far better role model than Elle Macpherson for young girls who have previously been reading schlocky teen magazines which encourage rampant self-criticism. Harry is no slouch either--he studies all the time and does well in school, he never uses violence to get back at the bully and is friends with the principal. Finally, even scrawny little Harry is a star at sports. In short, Harry and his friends are every parent's dream kids...
Maybe you can argue that teens should not be shunted aside, but I am curious to know how they've come to be worshipped instead. Now that I am fully grown, I sense two prevailing cultural obsessions that ignore me once again. In American culture, there is potential and nostalgia; we are fascinated by prodigies first and has-beens second. Stuck in the middle are millions like me, living in those awkward years between promising potential and ironic demise. And the parameters of the present keep pushing in. To the tune of discarded disco anthems, our eyes pan slowly from...
...found herself a tarnished cow, reduced to flashing her sagging udders at circus sideshows. Over time, self-loathing made her lactose-intolerant, and she died too young from an overdose of prescription-strength Dairy Ease[TM]. How do I know this? I just watched the whole sad aftermath during teen-idols week on VH1's Where Are They...
...three new sites, iCanBuy.com DoughNET.com and RocketCash.com partner with online merchants--such as cdnow, Fogdog Sports and teen clothier Delia's--that are popular with young people. First, parents register, provide credit-card information and indicate how much their children can spend; then the kids get to shop...
...definitely trying to break out, but that's very difficult because maybe our songs are not in the pop music style of America. The big mainstream music is teen pop music, which is absolutely opposite from us. Also, Yuka and I don't have big boobs, so that's makes it difficult. And we are Japanese. We are trying, through, through touring, to get people to know about our music. We want people to come to check us out, to see there is a band like this that exists. The important thing is that we have to keep going...