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...label, but "sexting" has been around, as a prank and a problem, for years: in 2004 a 15-year-old Pittsburgh, Pa., girl was charged with sexual abuse of children and dissemination of child pornography when she posted nude pictures of herself online. This seemed like a confounding twist in prosecutorial philosophy, since the victim and the villain in this case were the same child. But just in the past year, more than a dozen states have followed suit, arresting kids as young as 13 for sending or receiving smutty pictures on their phones. For parents, these cases have suddenly...
...break in life - the twist that put her on the path to a snug house in the suburbs with a vaulted living-room ceiling - was the product of these two qualities, the work ethic and the gift of gab. As a free-spirited young woman, Stevens liked working in hip restaurants and bars where musicians would hang out when their tours passed through Kansas City. Bonnie Raitt, the Doobie Brothers. "Those boys from Lynyrd Skynyrd," as she now calls them, arrived after closing time at a joint where she worked and smashed some things when she refused to serve them...
...instance, the documentary showed clips from “Aladdin,” “The Jungle Book,” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” contending that they contain highly sexualized representations of females, and that “Oliver Twist,” “Pocahontas,” and “Peter Pan” communicate stereotyped, white supremacist messages. After the screening, Baran turned to the audience for reactions, sparking a discussion about whether the films’ messages were innocuous or harmful, how portrayals have...
...Mindfucking” lie in its lack of depth: McGinn is certainly not the first to tell his readers about the “phenomenon” of mental manipulation, and he doesn’t treat the subject with enough intellectual gravity to give a new twist on the topic...
...which may not be an ace at lifting off but proves a surprisingly excellent road buddy. The effect is like a happy-go-lucky Nabokov, with all the road-tripping wordplay and none of the incest. It's a joy to watch Kraft resuscitate stale idioms with a simple twist, as when Peter describes the verbally dexterous Albertine not as having a way with words but as having her way with them...