Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plumtree's music, like Anderson's, is not burdened by deep meaning or heavy handed emotions. These music makers instead strive to set free a powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs, merging a fifties surf-garage feel with the driving energy of power pop. Their concoction is a Beach-Boys-meets-Shonen-Knife puree, and cocktail leaves the listener with a smile and a tune...
...there is a weakness in Plumtree's efforts on Mass Teen Fainting, it is the communal attitude they take to their music-making: with four band members, all of whom are singers, the microphone is passed around like at a Karaoke party. The band also trades instruments, and as a result, some songs like "Shoot to Scoop" emerge underdeveloped and under-performed...
Although both candidates favor educational programs directed at curbing teen violence and drug use, Weld said that tougher sentencing must also be a part of any serious crime fighting agenda...
...lamps to mind. The noncarbonated fruit-flavored beverages, called Orbitz, contain brightly colored jelly balls that can be sipped through a straw. Grossing out grownups is part of the plan. "If we are making 40-year-olds uncomfortable," says marketing director Jonathan Cronin, "we are probably making a teen very happy...
Siblings Maurice (Timothy Spall) and Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) shared a challenging childhood and adolescence but have since hardly spoken to each other: he is married and busy with a prosperous photography business; she is coping as a single mother of a chain-smoking teen, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). Meanwhile, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the child Cynthia gave up for adoption and forgot, tracks down her mother. Revelation to Maurice and to Roxanne seems imminent. Drama ensues...