Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes Michael Lee Cohen, age 27, a Harvard Law School graduate armed with a Sheldon traveling fellowship to interview Americans in their 20s. Cohen's contribution, The Twentysomething American Dream, appears to be a sincere, well-intentioned effort to help define the generation, or to allow the generation to define itself. Ultimately, though, the book falters because of problems in executing the individual portraits at the heart of the book, not to mention the sheer difficulty of the task...
...first film, Boyz N the Hood, a lucky accident? Or is his second, Poetic Justice, an unlucky one? Too soon to say, of course, since Singleton, the youngest person (and only black) to receive simultaneous Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, is still in his 20s, with most of his career ahead...
...Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved my life," a reference to Indeep...
Third Millennium represents a kind of trickle-down political activism: build it, publicize it, and they will come. However, many people in their 20s feel distanced from such artificial, removed-from-life solutions. "I know everything in the White House connects to what I'm doing, but it seems so far away," says John Jackson, a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University, who has been unable to find a summer job, even as a cashier. Others express a sense of generational siege. "The AARP ((American Association of Retired Persons)) has the power to mortgage our future," says Joe Ross...
Every generation likes to believe it is uniquely dysfunctional: the Lost, the Beat, the Me generations. It's the nature of youth to reject and rebel. "We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority," D.H. Lawrence once said. Many people in their 20s believe baby boomers have treated the economy, the environment and even the institution of marriage the way a reckless driver treats a rental car. The Third Millennium may fail, but it's a signal that another generation -- angered by the deficit and bitter over retirees who got theirs while the getting...