Word: towelheads
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While there are some indications that the awkwardness is starting to fade - menarche, or a girl's first period, has been cropping up in movies (including last year's Towelhead) and books (My Little Red Book, a collection of anecdotes about women's first leak week, reached the New York Times' best-seller list in February) - it's not doing so very quickly...
...Towelhead Written and directed by Alan Ball; rated R; out now Making the offensive funny is not easy. It's even harder when your protagonist is a 13-year-old girl, and your subjects are sex and race. Ball's film is as cringe-inducing as an after-school special but with a larky tone that invites the audience to feel complicit. One word...
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