Word: teens
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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That Ain't No Way To Treat a Teen...
...derisive letters Time received from older Americans about its January story on teenage unemployment [Feb. 1]: As a teen who has been unsuccessful in finding a job, I am offended by generalizations that teens have minimal skills and a poor work ethic. It is this sort of mind-set--and not just the economy--that prevents teenagers from getting jobs...
...sound of the Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House has always run counter to its name. Full of cold, echoing vocals and propelled by a lulling drone, Beach House songs are more March in Montauk than July on the Cape. But Teen Dream, the band's third and most accomplished album, takes one step closer to the sun. Warm guitars, swoon-inducing melodies--why, the whole thing's positively springlike. You can almost forgive the pair the cruel joke of releasing it in the dead of winter...
...been 25 years since five teenage archetypes sat down together for Saturday detention, and their experience - as related in John Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes...
...John Hughes' movies different from the many others directed toward a teen audience? The thing that made John Hughes so special was that he took kids and their problems seriously. He understood that the teenage years can be the most emotionally resonant, passionate, intense years of many people's lives - that these years are about so much more than just sneaking beer and trying to make...