Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...moment, at least, it's both, as was clear when McCain climbed back onto his plane and headed down to South Carolina, where he was met at 3 a.m. in an airport hangar by hundreds of college kids and the earsplitting techno sounds of Fat Boy Slim. Bomba dada boomba ba went the music. It nearly parted your hair. Signs were waved and bodies were hopping on the concrete floor. It was as if this father of seven, who spent 5 1/2 years in a prison camp during a war that was over before most of the revelers were born...
McCain has preserved traits in adulthood that most people--and just about all important men--permit the world to beat out of them. For instance, a small boy's ability to manufacture excitement and adventure where not much exists. Every visitor to McCain's cabin in the Arizona desert has the same odd experience. At some point during the first morning, McCain waves off into the distance and announces that today "we'll take a trip down to Zebra Falls." The way he says it and then becomes worked up over the idea suggests that the guests will be shooting...
...series, and is working on the apotheosis of today's superhero: theme-park rides. The company has signed with Acme City, a website owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner. And in a particularly odd cross-media teaming, Lee will create print comics and webisodes starring the Backstreet Boys. (Dare we dream of a death match with 'N Sync?) "There's a lot of females in our audience," says Boy Nick Carter, "and [comics are] a really cool way to get guys involved...
Though they stopped playing videos ten years ago and run more commercials than any other station on TV, you can't blame MTV for not taking risks. After all, they basically started the boy band craze on their own--and now, well, they may just end it on their own. Next month, MTV releases the TV documentary "2gether," a boy band spoof that tracks an inept music manager's attempt to find the next bubblegum sensation after losing his job. His creation, 2gether, brings together the five crucial ingredients for "Larger Than Life" success: "the heartthrob," "the rebel," "the cutie...
...fostering the escalation," says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver. "That perception is widely shared among ordinary Israelis, and the attacks may have severely weakened Barak's chances of winning his promised referendum on any land-for-peace deal with Syria. The prime minister is rapidly losing his wonder-boy image, and many of his ministers may be privately losing confidence in their leader...