Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Beyond your brief glimpses into our increasingly vapid pop culture, you probably don't know us very well, but we know you. We've watched in abject fascination as you've grown from a shy little boy pulling at the collar of his frilly shirt into a full-fledged heartthrob whose guarded smile renders many of us embarrassingly weak in the knees...
...other side (and on an axis that runs through Hollywood and Redmond, Wash.) we have the People of the Screen. The People of the Screen tend to ignore the classic logic of books; they prefer the dynamic flux of the screen. Movie screens, TV screens, computer screens, Game Boy screens, telephone screens, pager screens and Day-Glo megapixel screens we can only imagine today, plastered on every surface...
...stimuli you need. Technically, it's just a question of getting the right hookups. If there's anything we already know from playing games, it's that our brains eagerly adapt our physical responses to the onscreen action. Next time your six-year-old plays Pokemon on his Game Boy or your teenagers blast away at their pals on Quake, watch what happens to their breathing and blink rate. One steadily increases; the other drops away to almost nothing. Their bodies are getting ready to fight...
...humoring me because it was Father's Day, I ventured into a store that sells running shoes. Now, I grew up in a plain Keds generation: choice between white or dark blue. I considered the blue to be pretty unorthodox. So it was in white Keds as a boy that I played tennis, yachted and stole hubcaps...
...Tony: Yeah, Hollywood hasn't ever gotten over its taboo about black sexuality. This Shaft was a boy scout compared with his uncle. It was like the role was written for Denzel Washington, who always gets these parts where he saves the girl but there?s no sexual tension - especially when she's white...