Word: 20s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...into it with my mother. In your 20s and 30s, if your mother tells you your hair is too long or your skirt is too short or your kids are slobs, you get into it. You get riled. You might even call her a bitch. When the vein throbs in my neck about something my mother does or says, I pour myself a little glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, and I sit down, and I feel very blessed that I have...
...these kids would love nothing more than for me to be gone every night and all weekend. It would be their dream come true! Not going to happen." So she does theater only in summer. Her three older kids with husband sculptor Donald Gummer, however, are in their 20s and already making their own forays into show biz. Son Henry will appear in Lying with Chloe Sevigny, and daughter Mamie is in a film with Richard Gere. Once Louisa, now 14, is in college, Streep can take to the stage with a vengeance. Four kids, a long marriage, great beauty...
...Godless has long passages on some very old topics, including an entire early chapter on some ads from the 1988 presidential campaign and then a very long section on AIDS debates from the '80s. I've met a lot of your fans, and many are in their 20s. I'm 35, and when I got to the sentence in Chapter 7 that began "A 1985 issue of People magazine?," I got pretty bored. Won't this seem like ancient history to readers...
...reading this in print, you grew up on newspapers. Research suggests that our news media preferences have been established by the time we reach the age of 30. You’re also a dying breed—by 2010, only 9 percent of Americans in their 20s will read the paper on a daily basis. Social scientists note that the decline in readership is part of a larger move towards political inattentiveness among younger Americans. Barely a third of the “DotNet” generation (current 15- to 25-year olds) follows the news on a regular...
...morgue doctor and a local lawyer who negotiated a settlement between the Marines and the families under which the military agreed to pay $2,500 compensation apiece for some of the victims--mostly the women and children. Several survivors visited TIME's Baghdad bureau, including a man in his 20s whose four brothers were killed and an orphaned girl who is now the sole caretaker of her 8-year-old brother. The bureau was also pursuing leads that a 12-year-old girl had survived the attack by playing dead. In interviews, Thabet filled in details about what he witnessed...