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...Cowell, whose chest cavity apparently developed without a heart inside, rooted for Jennifer Hudson's soulful singer Effie in last year's Dreamgirls. All good movie musicals give us a lovable character to invest in - in Once it's Hansard's tender, awkward busker, in Hairspray Blonsky's cheerful teen reformer and Travolta's well-intentioned big momma. Contrast these huggable characters with, say, 2005's Rent, which celebrates broke, dysfunctional pseudo bohemians who you wish would just shut...
Teenage is a bracing reminder that the tides of teen rebellion after 1945 were always about more than loud music and fashion. That story has often been told, not least by Savage in his 1991 history of punk, England's Dreaming. What's yet to be accounted for is the curious disappearance in recent years of the generation gap between teens and their elders. In an age when the burning issue at middle-aged dinner parties is whether or not the Arctic Monkeys' second album is up to snuff (definitely, I'd say), it sometimes feels like everyone...
...have a positive impact on young women: “[A]fter years of hearing rappers talk negatively about women, about their babies’ mothers and sex,” he writes, “there’s been a real change in the patterns of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy in the black community is down, and I believe hip-hop…made girls smarter about premarital...
...many as 20,000 people while he was in the process of securing his absolute power over the nation. I hope that the International Court of Justice will investigate. Mugabe has become so mentally deficient as to be permanently incapable of rational conduct. Mike Faure, JOHANNESBURG A Debate on Teens John Cloud's reassuring article about the current state of American teens [April 9], in which he discussed my upcoming book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, bordered on the irresponsible. Each year more than 2 million U.S. adolescents attempt suicide, legal and illegal...
...interlude of her poetry: “Goat-skin drums advancing with hands outstretched, and we keep filling them with nitrous, asbestos, baby-bombs blasting blue,” she blabbers. Gee, Patti, we’re really getting into that poetry of yours. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is also the most recent song she covers here, and it’s indicative of her antiquated sensibilities—the kind of song that Reader’s Digest subscribers might think is “fresh” despite being 16 years...