Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mike Love, a cousin and the group's 24-year-old lead vocalist, went straight to bar after Friday's concert, and the other Boys drank easily and knowledgeably as they wandered about the suite. But Dennis kept his glass filled with Seven-Up and clucked paternally at his younger brother, who left early to go to the bar in the lobby. When Dennis offered us Cokes, he apologized and explained again that he doesn't drink. "I can't afford to," he says, "with everything that's wrong with me, I'd be dead in a year." Bob Dylan...
HALF A SIXPENCE "is better than none" is Tommy Steele's theme in this younger-than-springtime musical, and the ubiquitous Steele is better than most of the breed as the singing-dancing-banjo-playing Kipps, a rags-to-riches-to-rags hero...
...wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could produce no papers to prove it, was sentenced to 20 lashes for vagrancy, a strange thing happened. Out from Moscow rode Grand Duke Michael, Alexander's younger brother. He personally threatened the judge with a lashing of his own. But after talking privately and reverentially with Kuzmich, Michael relented and left. Other Romanovs visited the holy man: Czarevich Alexander, namesake of his uncle and soon to bear the imperial title, arrived and kissed Kuzmich's hand...
...dozen other professional countertenors, including, most notably, the U.S.'s Russell Oberlin. To help perpetuate the species, Deller is grooming his older son Mark, 27, to assume his mantle: "His voice is exactly like mine-uncannily so." The resurgence of baroque music, Deller thinks, is led by the younger generation, who "have chosen to sidestep the romantics. They no longer want their ears invaded by the oozy wash of sound. They prefer instead to hear counter point, to hear the architecture of the music. It is a restatement of a fundamental truth that speaks across the centuries." And somehow...
...Douglas were 15 years younger, he would indeed be all but unbeatable. But with age, he has lost some of his zing. Half in jest, Percy remarked: "One thing that bothers me about this is that it's my friends who keep telling me I shouldn't run, and my enemies who tell me I should...