Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though many of the younger composers, such as Goldenthal and James Newton Howard, use synthesizers and mixing boards to try out their music before they put it in front of an orchestra, nearly all the composers reject the voguish use of fully synthesized scores. "The orchestra," says Trevor Jones, "has a limited sound palette, synthesizers a vast one. But a synthesizer score sounds old very rapidly. Orchestral scoring is what you use for a long shelf life...
...time has generally avoided raiding his usual source, the Harvard Lampoon.) In some ways, SNL is a victim of its own success. Writers can now find many other markets in prime time for their talents, at least in part because of the SNL influence: several of last year's younger writers have left for shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons and News Radio. "The sensibility of SNL is all over TV now," says former staff writer Robert Smigel, one of four people who rejected offers from Michaels to take over as head writer. Smigel will instead be executive producer...
...suspected that a saboteur was contaminating batches of lysine in ADM's fermenting process. Whitacre says agents soon questioned him about the problem and that he was instructed by Mick Andreas to lie about a few details, including which phone line he used to conduct business from home. The younger Andreas apparently wanted to be sure Whitacre could continue to discuss lysine prices undetected...
...relative of Saddam's, figured as a pillar of that edifice. Since the 1980s he has overseen procurement of the nightmarish weaponry that variously made his boss a hero in the eyes of some Arabs and an outlaw menace to most of the world. Meanwhile, Hussein Kamel's younger brother, Colonel Saddam Kamel al-Majid, headed the President's elite corps of personal bodyguards. The U.S., thirsting for what a Pentagon official called a potential "intelligence bonanza," pledged at once to defend Jordan against any reprisals and sent Arabic-speaking CIA specialists to Amman in hopes of debriefing the defectors...
...idea of Dole being president in his mid-70s is ridiculous. As we approach the 21st century, we need new ideas and younger, more progressive leaders. The symbolism of someone of Dole's generation leading us into the new millennium is laughable. MICHAEL KING, age 15 St. Helens, Oregon...