Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carnival of surplus politics, it is harder to argue that Medicare and Social Security require big structural changes, like privatization, means testing or raising the age of eligibility--even though, back in 1935, when it was set at 65, the average life expectancy was 61. Conservatives now see the fruits of restraint bearing the seeds of future deficits, if Congress approves all kinds of new spending this summer that can't be cut back whether the surplus actually materializes...
Adiza Sanchez-Rahim, 12, knew nothing about violin when Roberta visited her first-grade class six years ago. Adiza is at an awkward age, but when she picks up the violin, she assumes a defiant grace. After all, she has taken lessons at Juilliard, performed in Switzerland and played for Oprah Winfrey. Says Adiza: "I'd be totally different without violin...
With Concordes and private jets at the ready, other tour operators are pitching packages so wealthy globe-trotters can watch the New Age dawn against decidedly Old Age backdrops--Yemen, for example. Jump aboard a private jet with R. Crusoe & Son of Chicago for one of its millennium sojourns, and you will also get to see Mali's river-port city of Mopti and the minimalist infrastructure of Timbuktu...
...exactly, says the district attorney's office. Given her age--70--and the age of the case, prosecution would have been difficult. Now, with no lengthy trial in their way, psychiatrists can immediately begin to explore the psychodynamics of a child murderer. "Instead of spending money to house this woman in prison, the money will be spent to find out why she did this," says deputy D.A. Charles Gallagher...
This is an album about loss: the passing of heroes, the withering of beauty, the end of an age--one song is titled Elegy for William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Despite the subject, the mood is never dour. Nearly every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear. This 28-year-old pianist is a wonder at weaving together musical traditions. On his last album, playing in a trio, he performed a moving jazz rendition of a song by the art-rock group Radiohead; on this CD, playing solo, he smoothly merges jazz improvisation with classical piano...