Word: boying
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...Degrees. With the Spice Girls producer behind them in their debut English album, these two girls will feel right at home in the current youth craze. The songs are very girly and cutesy, with lyrics that would fit right into the poetry section of Teen magazine ("Pretty pretty boy I love you"). Out of the 13 songs in the album, approximately 13 sound like the same song, give or take a few notes and tempo markings. Though nowhere as skanky as their teen contemporaries, M2M's voices are far weaker or perhaps just mellow and undeveloped in that Hanson...
Mention the word "Cuba" in the United States and many people will immediately think of Bacardi, Montecristos and Guaguanco. To others, Cuba conjures images of Elian Gonzlez, the poor boy who has been the focus of an emotional tug-of-war. And to those who look forward to his deportation, perhaps images of Fidel Castro, Ch Guevara, and the wonders of Communism parade in their minds...
...slow and painful descent from yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems like a huge smear campaign against Range Rovers and Pajeros--the characters who drive them are spoiled, corrupt...
Further proof that the pressure to be politically correct is long gone... Overheard in Cabot House Dining Hall between a Chinese boy and a Korean girl...
...BOY: I don't understand why you're so mean to me. You hate me because I'm Chinese...