Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rome. It was, however, Caravaggio, the tragic realist, with his dramatically articulate figures sculpted by darkness, his appetite for common life and his candor about the apprehensible world, who had blown away the mincing academism of late mannerist art and shown the way forward to a whole generation of younger European painters, of whom Ribera was the most gifted...
...emphasis. The metallic guitar-picking of Chronic Town has been replaced with an intimate layered sound-Peter Buck's Brooding acoustic strumming, Mike Mills' subdued bass and ex-Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones' rich string arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree younger years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls... Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls ("Hey kids, rock and roll/nobody tells you where...
...Ross stood before this country early this summer, preaching that we must improve the moral and ethical base of our society by teaching the proper values to the younger generation. Yet this guy has treated the presidential election and the fate of the nation like a game. He deserted oodles of volunteers to whom he had made a solemn promise. And, after committing to pay his campaign workers through the November election after he dropped out, he soon reneged on that promise as well...
Thank you, Sir Ross, for demonstrating some hearty moral and ethical values to our younger generation. This champion of Texas' sweltering summer weather couldn't survive the heat of the press--and now he thinks he can come and go at his will to try to salvage some pride...
...THOSE FRETFUL ABOUT THE SUBLIteracy of the MTV generation, a freshet of hope comes with the annual YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, which has drawn on thousands of writers 18 and younger and given the best an off-Broadway showcase. This year's cleverest premise comes from Aurorae Khoo. Her rap poem The P.C. (for politically correct) Laundromat substitutes for the melting pot the metaphor of the washing machine, where whites and colors fare best when separate. Joanna Norland's Mothers Have Nine Lives wryly contrasts the joys of playing mommy as a child with the discontents of the real thing...