Word: adolescentes
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Walter Kirn hit the nail on the head in "Will Teenagers Disappear?" [VISIONS 21, Feb. 21]. Kirn noted that an adolescent with his or her own money is not a teenager but a "capitalist early bird out to get the worm." I am in the ninth grade, and I already...
That's the best joke in What Planet Are You From? Considering the number of variations played on it, you might argue that it's the only one. Mostly, Shandling plays an overgrown adolescent of a familiar, earthbound sort. He's befuddled and inept as he attempts to comprehend the...
Her counterpart, Dan Cozzens '03 as Gary, is more reserved. In the dress rehearsal the reviewer saw, Cozzens occasionally stumbled over his lines, but because it befits the adolescent awkwardness he wisely brings to his character, it almost doesn't matter. Gary could have been precociously sensitive, but Cozzens takes...
Adolescent Students Living with Both Parents
An adolescent with his or her own money--real money, not parental charity--is not, in any meaningful sense, a teenager, but a capitalist early bird out to get the worm. This truth informs those ads for Internet stockbrokers in which young punks with goatees and ponytails give investment advice...