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Welcome to expat life for the Naught generation: Beijing is the new Prague, with enough booze, sex and caffeine to keep any restless Westerner satisfied.
Then go down the hall and go to the 1rst Hall of empty melodies and run past the nobodies, and enter the Naught's Skyway.
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The Oughts, the Naughts, the Naughties, the Zips, the Preteens, the Ohs and the Oh-Ohs are among the more familiar.
Rather, we're in the midst of a two-decade period without universally agreed-upon names: the naughts, aughts, zeros, oh-ohs, or 2000s; tens, tweens and teens.
Now the old guard, the first post-World War II generation to come to power in Russia, is squaring off against "the Generation of the Naughts," those who came of age in the first decade of the new century.
Here's something that could never have happened in the Naughts but will maybe be possible in the Tweens or Teens — if there's a breakthrough in the Mideast peace process.
With two and a half years yet to go in the naughts, it might seem early to be declaring the candidates for such an honor, but there's one more that will surely make the list -- the Porsche Cayenne.
While new creations or phenomena sometimes get a new name -- like "software" or "affirmative action" -- gaps in the language are not always filled: a compelling and widely embraced name for the first decade of the 21st century has yet to be found, though many suggestions like "the aughts," "the naughts," "the zeros" and "the oh-ohs" have been floated.
Instead, I'll go with SMS – otherwise known as text messaging; while technically a product of the 80s, SMS truly came to fruition in the naughts.
Yet perhaps the most important story of the naughts–one largely unmentioned in the media's myriad decade retrospectives is the slow and steady march of economic progress that marks our day-to-day lives.
Even as he amped up the references fifty fold by Kill Bill, a stunning mélange of spaghetti western, giallo, Kung Fu and more, something had shifted by the naughts for the controversial auteur, something deeper, something more personal.
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