Word: 20s
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...Kids today may not know that there was a time when young people wanted to be grown-up, not the other way ?round, as today; and when the route to success in popular media went through mid-high culture, not low. In his early 20s, Welles wouldn?t have considered for one moment seeming less mature or intelligent than he was. He didn?t play to the groundlings; he figured they would climb up to meet him. He and Houseman would fool them into think-ing enlightenment was entertainment. This tendency to edify enchantingly was clearest in the author sketches...
...never-be-played-too-often "Sweets for My Sweet." L&S also encouraged the young songwriters in Broadway?s Brill Building - Gerry Goffin and Carole King ("When My Little Girl Is Smiling"), Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ("On Broadway"), who were all in their late teens or early 20s -to write plangent pop ballads. These were the Broadway songs that Broadway couldn?t bring itself to write...
...beer, smoking A-daeng cigarettes and spitting onto the concrete floor, there is plenty of opium. Several foreigners are already in the back-room den, crashed out on dank mattresses having puffed their way through half a dozen pipes each. Sophie, a blond English girl in her 20s, insists the black-trousered O-man, as she calls the Vietnamese boy loading pipes, give her and her friends the best possible dope. "Make sure it's Opium No. 1, okay?" she tells him, pointing at the black goop wrapped in wax paper. "I don't want No. 2. That makes...
...last month, she didn't acknowledge an affair with Condit. But she did offer insights into the 53-year-old politician. She claimed that Condit's staff felt "betrayed" by his relationship with Levy and the fallout that followed. According to McKay, who was single and in her early 20s when she worked for Condit but is now married, the Congressman and his wife Carolyn "didn't have the typical relationship. It was more of a business relationship...
TURNED OVER. TIMOTHY WOODLAND, 24, U.S. Air Force sergeant accused of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s in a parking lot last month; to local authorities; in Okinawa, Japan. The U.S. released Woodland into Japanese custody without an indictment after the Japanese government agreed to allow him access to legal counsel and a translator during police interrogations--privileges not usually available to suspects in Japan...