Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back from an addiction to cocaine. The electoral wave of last November, he says, ``was so big that some people crashed ashore who normally would not have been here...
According to several passengers' accounts, the hijackers appeared to be in their early 20s; they were beardless and had closely cropped hair. "They were polite, correct," said one woman. "But they had the determined air of cold- blooded killers." Said another passenger: "They seemed excited, very euphoric. They told us that they would give a lesson to the French and to the world, that they would show what they were capable of." The hijackers made certain everyone got the point by brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles, Uzi pistols, homemade hand grenades and two packs of dynamite. Later they placed...
Aside from Newt's hour, the network's most talked-about show is Youngbloods, a political round table featuring six men and women in their 20s. The show is set in a mock dorm lounge complete with loud furniture and a lava lamp. The slouching panelists, two moderate liberals among them, fervidly debate everything from the balanced-budget amendment to the death of patriotism. Discussions can be just as entertainingly fiery. When asked how he would handle the Bosnia crisis if he were President, Youngblood Tom Fitton rejoined: "We bomb the Serbs into oblivion until they start acting like...
...also a moment in which an artistic credo seems to be lurking, one that, with Stoppardian paradox, might be rendered as: Who sees littlest sees furthest. Ever since he became internationally famous while still in his 20s for his philosophical farce Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Stoppard has been accused of excessive cleverness -- of having a big mind but a small heart. At bottom Hapgood insists that this division is artificial. As Kerner says, "Every atom is a cathedral...
Carnesale didn't have time to attend the rising number of colds that are inevitable with the onset of winter. Temperatures dropped precipitously this week, with the thermometer dipping into the 20s...