Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just awful to be a young adult in America today. Movies venerate our elders; ads fetishize the mature body. And there's nary a million to be found in the new economy for, say, twentysomething computer whizzes...
...court has taken up the plight of the young, recognizing in an unusual and potentially groundbreaking decision a new civil right to be green. Earlier this year, the supreme court of New Jersey unanimously ruled that Michael Sisler, 31, can proceed with an age-discrimination suit against Bergen Commercial Bank in Paramus, N.J. The case will go to trial in the near future, but it began in 1993, when Sisler was an employee at New Era, a local bank his grandfather had founded. As Sisler tells the story in court papers, chairman Anthony Bruno of Bergen Commercial, a larger financial...
...October of 1997, three young actors went into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to play in a horror movie. Twenty-two months later, their film was a smash...and the talk not just of Hollywood but of America. You could hardly walk down a bustling street last week or log on to a website without tripping over that ominous incantation "Blair Witch." The impact, sudden and seismic, of The Blair Witch Project is utterly unprecedented. Never has a--let's be honest--weird movie budgeted at a ludicrously low $35,000 stormed both the box office and the national...
...variations on a tragic theme. Bullets flying again, this time in the lobby of a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, in the middle of a sunny day. The victims number five, one, a five-year-old boy, close to it. Three of them are little children, so young that among their peers, the luckier innocents, some were smiling and holding hands as their rescuers led them to safety. Extra cruel this time...
This hip-hop duo, like many other hard-core rap groups, writes songs about urban violence, street bravado, felonious gunplay, "baby fathers" and friends slain young. The music beneath Mobb Deep's lyrics, however, is oddly restful. The contrast between the jagged lyrics and the smooth rhythms that propel them gives the group's new record a thoughtful quality and a hard-to-resist listenability. One feels immersed and insulated...