Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed tough new restrictions on tobacco ads and sales to minors as not only unnecessary and unwise but also an "illegal power grab." The attorneys general of 25 states begged to differ. They sent the agency a supportive letter, urging a cooperative federal and state effort to curb teen smoking...
...full name: Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson) has a new album, The Violin Player, climbing up the worldwide pop charts on the strength of her disco-driven version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. A photo on the single from the album features the slim, pretty teen fiddling away while standing in the Mediterranean in a soaking-wet see-through white shift. "If as a result of this, people see the violin as a fresh, trendy, up-to-date instrument, that's fine with me," says Vanessa-Mae, whose avowed goal is to do for the electric violin...
...wanted a baby more than anything," says Milani. During her teen years, Evans marked her calendar with the notation "IC" to remind herself of the most fertile days to have intercourse; meanwhile, her detractors spray painted DEBBIE IS A SLUT on the sidewalk outside the church she attended. Although Evans' father embraced Samantha, who is white, as his granddaughter, he disowned Evans after she gave birth to Joshua. Last week, as Sam grieved publicly, telling reporters, "I was concerned that her rebellion would cost her life," friends of Evans' fumed that Sam was a "prejudiced pig." Meanwhile, the three suspects...
This year, though, a lot more people are paying to see that once endangered species, women's pictures--and not always out of a sense of sacrifice. The summer movie season, usually a men-only province, was commandeered by a phalanx of women: teen dream Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), lonely heartthrob Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping and The Net), ex-Marine schoolteacher Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) and a feminist princess named Pocahontas. Right now, with How to Make an American Quilt, Now and Then and Home for the Holidays, the plexes are awash in sisterhood cinema. And male moviegoers aren...
...Richer, For Poorer: Mothers Confront Divorce, Demie Kurz examines the impact of divorce on American women. Her book is a counter argument to this conservative attitude of politicians who blame female-headed households for the decline of family values, high crime rates, and "epidemic" rise in teen pregnancy...