Word: agent
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Aaron and BreZe, however, are only the headliners of pre-teen pop; a great many other agent-dependent, pre-pubescent boys and girls are being recruited and transformed into pop stars by record companies around the world. In Bangkok, 12-year-old half-Scottish, half-Indonesian Anan Anwar is shooting to the top of the charts with hits "Go To School" and "Simon Says." Triple Shake and Best Frenz are two more pop creations whose members are too young to see PG-13 movies but old enough to suggestively sway their underdeveloped hips...
...stiff sentences handed down by predominantly white juries (a white man with close ties to the black community received more than 300 years; a young black man received 20 years for selling just an eighth of an ounce of cocaine). On top of it all, the white undercover agent who conducted the sting has a shady past that includes accusations of theft and running out on debts - facts that were not allowed in any of the jury trials...
...years ago to a mechanic and a hairdresser, and named after a sweet dirge by poet-bard Joan Manuel Serrat ("Penelope, your sad eyes glow at the sound of a distant train"). Comely and outgoing, she studied ballet and acting as a child, was signed by a talent agent at 15 and was soon dancing in a Schweppes orange-soda commercial. At 17 she earned raves as a teen temptress in the loopy sex farce Jamon Jamon. "I cried when the movie ended," she says, in the lilting English she learned during two years of dance study in Manhattan...
...Massachusetts State Police officer and one Secret Service agent told The Crimson that security forces had been instructed to keep Nader...
...have to wonder what Layden and the Knick management are thinking. Perhaps they have decided to give this season to the vastly improved Miami Heat, and look to the free agent class of 2001 for help...