Word: 20s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...portraits simply drip glamour?the wealthy and celebrated of the day posed for Tamara de Lempicka, and her striking oils capture their red lipstick, perfect nails and skin as glossy as their satin dresses. Some art authorities dismiss De Lempicka (1898-1980), a Polish-Russian painter who flourished in '20s and '30s Paris, as a purveyor of kitsch and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour set: present-day collectors...
...Robert Jorin, a decades-long veteran in the field. The younger the student, the more likely he or she is to stay in the business, he says. Because being a chef involves backbreaking work and long hours, it is also better suited to someone in his or her early 20s. And another thing: for the months, sometimes years, spent sampling one's homework, it's useful to have a youthful metabolism. --With reporting by Laura A. Locke/San Francisco
...YEARS OLD AND MARRIED TO A MUCH YOUNGER WOMAN. HOW'S YOUR SEX LIFE? I tell you, my sex life today is the same as when I was a kid in my 20s. I never got anything then either...
...really bad. At home that night they read that about 40% of kids with A-T get cancer by age 12; 100% deteriorate neurologically, so they're in wheelchairs as early as age 8; most die of lung problems or cancer by their late teens or early 20s. "You kind of go through a grief process," Margus says. "Your kids aren't dead, but the kids you thought you had are gone...
...contrast, most people attend college with the hopes of building a future, expanding their minds and also having fun. Caught up in the frenzy of competition here in Cambridge, however, many students forget that their 20s are years for development and enjoyment. We spend a tough nine months trying to maintain a high GPA and competing with equally driven peers, so is there really a need to rush to the workplace in the prime freedom of our lives...