Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Kilner '01 forgot his six-month anniversary with Sarah H. Gerber '02...on Valentine's Day, no less. The junior Winthrop resident spent the holiday downloading replays of the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk contest...Kelly D. Preston '00 re-gifted a rollneck sweater to her first-year boy-toy Samuel J. LeVander '03. "What he doesn't know won't hurt him" confided Kelly...Matt Geller '02 ran over girlfriend Amy Linder '02 with his bike on the way to Physics lecture...
...kids over? Comics sales have slumped for years, and until high-speed connections become common, even the most skillfully done Web animation will tend to be jerky or slow. Superpowered boy bands or Web surfers kicking butt online (where Slyme's "magical shovel is one of the most feared artifacts throughout cyberspace," according to the website) may seem, well, lame. Today's comics tend toward dark, complicated stories, and although that's arguably an evolution of Lee's innovations, he complains that the new breed has "lost" youngsters. "I don't see any reason not to do a story that...
GEORGE W. BUSH Inevitable? Front runner? Things are lookin' tough for Daddy's boy. "Regis, I could use a lifeline...
Fidel Castro and Miami politicians are already using six-year-old ELIAN GONZALEZ as a poster boy. Now Madison Avenue wants a piece of the photogenic tyke. As long as Elian is a guest in capitalist America--pending a U.S. court decision on his fate--companies like the popular Web-search firm AltaVista want to cast him in commercials. An advertising firm based in Portland, Ore., Wieden & Kennedy, which produces AltaVista's ads, tells TIME it is making a pitch to Elian's Miami family about using the boy's image in a national spot...
Last week his Cuban father charged in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno that the boy is being "unscrupulously manipulated." The Miami family's lawyer, Spencer Eig, says they might listen to AltaVista's idea, but "so far they've turned down" commercial offers. If so, it's a rare example of restraint in this more than two-month-long frenzy...