Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said today's youth are adept at coming up with innovative solutions to society's problems...
...trip, Krisch discovered that youth can, in fact lead the way, she said...
Kirsch objected to widespread portrayal of today's youth as cynical, saying that she has "seen a lot of positive people out there...
...typical all-male rock band is a roiling bouillabaisse of sexual competition and desire, and that is reflected in the music. "There is a different atmosphere in a coed band," says drummer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, a pioneering male-and-female group. Coed bands usually avoid cartoonish, bombastic sexuality except to ridicule it. Their songs often seek to understand the differences between the genders, and they are often painfully self-critical. Lyrics to Frente!'s Labour of Love go, "I don't know how I bent/ What you said to what I believe you meant." Says N'Dea Davenport...
...about the only coed bands around; now they are common. Even the house band on Late Show with David Letterman has added a female guitarist. The foundation of the recent trend was laid in the late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer Mary Lorson: "I didn't really start playing guitar until...