Word: teenspeak
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...Paranormal power, for short 4 "Of course!" in teenspeak 7 "Don't ask, don't ___" (Clinton policy McCain supports) 11 Praise highly 13 Palindromic first name of Arkansas G.O.P. Congressman 14 First name of Indian Prime Minister Bush didn't know 15 Now being debated: Should its earnings be taxed? 17 Did a smithy's job 18 One Day at ___ 19 ___ Nostra 21 One of the Bobbseys 22 Mr. Saturday ___ (Crystal flick) 25 Big Apple hoops tourney 28 "Neato!" 29 Any Given Sunday director 31 Jason's vessel 34 "___ to worry!" 36 Ingrid in Casablanca 37 53-Across creator David...
Then there is the matter of Bust, the hip magazine of the moment. Created by Debbie Stoller, a 35-year-old who holds a doctorate in women's studies from Yale, and Marcelle Karp, a 34-year-old TV producer, Bust is a magazine intentionally written in teenspeak but meant for female readers in their late 20s and early 30s. It was developed as an antidote to magazines like Cosmopolitan, which present female sexuality so cartoonishly. However noble the intent, the message is often lost in the magazine's adolescent tone: read about an adult woman's first-time vibrator...
Like all genre fiction -- gothics, romances, police procedurals -- teen tinglers follow a fairly consistent set of formulas. The heroes or heroines are invariably adolescents whose lives fall mysteriously into jeopardy; adults are either the source of the menace or remote, almost inanimate objects. The dialogue comes laced with teenspeak -- gnarly, totally awesome -- and the plot steamrolls over lesser details like setting and characterization. Chapters are short and end in suspense, luring readers with short attention spans to forge onward. The level of violence ranges from the implied to the horrific, and the bloodier bits are sometimes mitigated by context...
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