Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...kids in the limos are too smart to make babies. Much better to remain nubile for another 20 years, have romances with various inappropriate people, earn a bucket of money by hosting their own TV show or modeling underwear or e-trading, and live in a cool house and give awesome parties, and get a real life somewhere around the age of 35. They know the grief that children cause, having so recently caused it--the noise, the mess, the stink, the sports programs. Millions of intelligent, literate parents condemned to long afternoons watching children scuffle around on soccer fields...
...sought a second opinion from Chris Komisarjevsky, who claims to enjoy traveling with his six children, ages 6 to 12. A stint as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam prepared him for this challenge: "You learn to keep your cool." But Komisarjevsky, co-author with his wife Reina of Peanut Butter and Jelly Management (Amacom; $17), agreed with Gump. Says Chris: "Remember it's a vacation for the kids. That's different from a vacation for adults without children--which, of course, you should also take." That I knew already...
...long run. Gen Xers aren't the only ones abusing this drug. Far from it. But to them it's hip. The Gap kids lost tens of thousands each in the market's spring cleaning. But, hey, they're with it. They wear their losses as a badge of cool...
...quickly learned that Kibu was not quite as cool as I thought. On the up side, the girls loved the name, loosely translated as foundation from Japanese. Articles on how to write an essay, turn down a date and weigh the pros and cons of dorm life went over well too. "I'm going though some of these same things," said Layra, 17. On the downside, they found the overall format and design dull. Unlike Alloy and Bolt, which pulsate with colors, animations and links, Kibu's haiku look--which features nothing but a series of faces on the opening...
...Brown's skillful and sympathetic handling of her two central characters. Miriam is well meaning almost to a fault; her idealism sometimes shades into a simulacrum of selfishness, an unwillingness to credit other people with feelings as pure as her own. And Ronnee, who imagines herself a cool, calculating gold digger, is actually a vulnerable young woman burdened by society with conflicting identities. "Yeah, I know," she says at one point. "Nothing is black and white. Except me. I'm black and white...