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...many people will make up stories to explain why the Europeans—and everyone else, for that matter—take such a keen interest in the United States, its culture and its language. Stories to account for their astoundingly successful efforts to teach their younger generations to speak English, for their indomitable preference for American clothes, music, movies and television programs at the expense of their native industries, for their incessant focus on America in their news coverage (to the point of following our election more closely than their own), for their avid taste for American food?...
Finally, there's the teen boy as idealized by cable-political-news producers. The WB's Jack & Bobby (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.) follows two teen brothers: older, athletic Jack McAllister (Matt Long) and younger, asthmatic Bobby (Logan Lerman). Through a framing device--flash-forward excerpts from a political documentary--we learn that in 2040, Bobby will be elected President. But to get to the White House he must first overcome the smothering influence of his lefty professor mother Grace (Christine Lahti) and the stigma of being the biggest dork in his high school. Grace is idealistic but willful--really...
...write about tweening. What is it? Tweening is the marketing of sexually revealing clothing to kids, along with teen music, makeup to girls, more violent toys to younger boys and so forth. A tween is what years ago used to be called a preteen. Some marketers have even stretched the concept of tween down to 6-year-olds...
Take polling, please. The vast majority of Americans--as many as 90%, pollsters have told me privately--refuse to answer questions when the wizard calls (although the number is marginally better this hot election year). People who use cell phones exclusively, mostly younger voters, are unreachable. The wizards say they can correct for these things, by "weighting" their polls--that is, giving disproportionate weight to members of underrepresented groups like young people. But surely that makes polling less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shiftsBush moved ahead in the presidential race after...
Sahara Hotnights’ story seems plucked from some major label’s idea book: Four women, all younger than twenty-five, growing up together in the same Swedish neighborhood, eventually discovering the Buzzcocks and Ramones and deciding to take on today’s hipster boys at their own game of 80’s-inspired punk-pop. While the formula sounds more Spice Girls than Sleater-Kinney, the Hotnights still manage legitimacy. Since their teenage years the four have been making rock music on their own terms and have risen from European obscurity thanks to nonstop dedication...