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Show BREAKUP PREDICTED By KITSCH: Placed in Threatening Position to Hello Kitty Long Before Track Listing on Breakup Compilation CD Finalized ANOTHER T-R- GEM-- X ex setting, poor driving skills or techniques, it seems that today's couple prefers turning pop culture itself into a battlefield. Sources on the Foster side of the Beckman-Foste- r conflict report that Beckman once remarked during a gathering that took place shortly after an argument about the "seriousness" of their relationship, "You know, I've always thought She-RPrincess of Power was kind of a toast-butterin- A' by Rachaet Sawyer n retrospect. University of Utah student Kenny Beckman considers last Friday's conversation, in which he broke off romantic relations with fellow student Ally Foster, an arbitrary observance of social convention. The symbolic act of placing a plastic dinosaur in his Hello Kitty Ballet School jewelry box marked the true ending of the relationship for Beckman. Said toy placement created a visual statement for Foster, who did not fail to immediately grasp its meaning upon returning home to then-girlfriend- 's their shared apartment. The display was, according to Dr. Venkman, RED's sociology correspondent, "a veritable diorama of g a slut" While the veracity of this statement remains unsubstantiated, eyewitness accounts of the Beckman-Foste- r alliance indicate that the cou- i ; ple may have in fact used pop culture in settings as well. the entire Indeed, relationship seems to have been both sparked and sustained by a mutual ability to films recite lines from made during the period of time from However, new research indicates that it is not unlikely for a Gen-non-comb- at low-budg- 1976-198- et 7. X see herring, page discontent" "Note the opposition between culturally coded pink and blue here," he added. "There are obviously gender tensions at play" The Kenny Beckman Ally Foster relationship illustrates a longstanding trend among young Americans to express their emotions through thinly veiled pop culture references. Whereas past generations endlessly quibbled over the thermostat ex because she found a vibrator with her image on the "business end.' m in H deep-seede- d Hello Kitty broke up with R12 Lis - -. -- la P u e r R If s ; ; ; i -- ixn a .1 tl ILSca a y cyiOcs (i a m its- y s s ' J. 1I1H itijiliii; V( - 3 M I ..r-- 1 11 . .... ... , m lu 1 tit) i 'Oii'iiitiii fiiii!I .. . . .. V :' ijJdjii'i m'J&m . ui (iiiiiiiiiBiintijia?? Mi BED Magazine January 16, 2003 f?j |
