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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: American Notes:Generations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 53
- American Notes
- GENERATIONS
- Disenchanted Evenings
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> In the battle against loitering teenagers, 7-Eleven stores
- thought about putting pointed lids on trash cans and flooding
- their premises with halogen lights. Finally the shops hit on
- the ultimate weapon: playing saccharine tunes guaranteed to
- send adolescents screeching into the night. Says 7-Eleven
- spokeswoman Margaret Chavris: "They won't hang around and tap
- their feet to Mantovani." Most teens agree. "Can you believe
- this nonsense?" says Ray LaVerne, 18, at Southland's store in
- Tillicum, Wash.
- </p>
- <p> Now that the "music from hell" has successfully been tested,
- strains of Some Enchanted Evening are expected to be featured
- in other stores. Those who have been assaulted by teenagers'
- boom boxes may view this as sweet revenge.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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