Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animals in "a netherworld of human scrutiny and intervention" by maintaining an ark for captive species that will never sleep freely under a night sky. In her marriage, she accepts her husband's infidelities. Finally, he has the one affair that wives dread: he falls in love with a younger woman and steps away from his old life...
...book that follows an accomplished first novel is like the younger sibling of a child prodigy: its achievements appear smaller than they actually are, and its flaws more serious. Gus Lee's China Boy was as precocious as they come. Based on the author's own childhood, it told of a first-generation Chinese-American misfit named Kai Ting who struggles to grow up in a predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh...
Michael (Thomas Calabro), newly divorced from his wife Jane, is being blackmailed by Jane's conniving younger sister, Sydney (Laura Leighton). Sydney knows that Michael is hiding evidence that he was driving drunk the night of a car accident that killed his girlfriend. Sydney moves in with Michael, prints up wedding invitations and forces him to marry her, even though he hates her guts...
...main figure in the current vanguard of middle-generation jazz pianists who often suffer neglect as the media's spotlight falls on young lions and old masters. That is why Friday's concert was a fascinating twist; the middle man was the star, with older and younger in strong supportive roles...
...Feldman tune "Seven Steps to Heaven." Williams announced that the evening's music would be a tribute, "celebrating [the] legacy of Cannonball Adderly, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane," as this first tune was long associated with the late trumpeter Davis. The front line of elder Lew Soloff on trumpet, younger Javon Jackson on tenor saxophone and Williams' contemporary and dynamo Bobby Watson on alto sax blasted out the tunes' head. The roles were set from then: Soloff showing incredible range in high notes mixed with David-like licks in the middle range, Watson with veritable sheets of sound wailing...