Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drugs wild man, people assume that he has always been a hellion. In fact, he was a quiet, dutiful, good son -- a not very religious Episcopal acolyte, a student-body president, and in 1969, in Marin County, Calif., a quiet, dutiful, unrebellious teenager. The blowout hedonism of his 20s and 30s was the aberration, because now, at 40, he is quiet, dutiful and good once again...
Government officials are only now beginning to focus on what they believe is the vastly underreported number of alcohol-related incidents among those in their teens and early 20s: suicide, murder, date rape, family violence. Alcohol abuse was a major factor in 41% of all academic problems and 28% of college dropouts, according to a 1991 study by Virginia's George Mason University and West Chester University of Pennsylvania...
...exactly like sex. The first time is not necessarily the best time at all. I mean, later times can be much better...That doesn't change the fact that the first time, or even times that I can remember when I'm in my '20s had special personal associations for me that'll never be replaced...
...work of Larry Rivers -- a number of young artists emerged in New York City, Paris and London who had little in common beyond their curiosity about the largely disparaged sea of mass media and commercial persuasion: ads, billboards, newsprint, TV montage and all kinds of kitsch. In the '20s Dadaists and Surrealists had been fascinated by this too, but Pop art dived into it with a kind of wallowing abandon...
...sitcom stardom, are as unready for real life as zoo pets suddenly released in the wild. They try, too quickly, to catch up on the rambunctious youth they missed, and wind up in the police blotter or on the cover of supermarket tabloids. They can spend their 20s torpid, discarded, in rehab from their early fame...