Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difference -- and the essence of the choice -- comes down to attitude. Bush says trust me, I am the man to take the phone call in the night, I am the candidate with "the experience, the seasoning, the guts to do the right thing." Clinton counters that he is the younger, forward-looking man of bold action who can set the new goals, devise the new mission the U.S. needs in the post-cold war world. Bush says Clinton is "reckless"; Clinton says Bush is "rudderless and reactive." Bush is selling himself as the custodian of American hegemony in a unipolar...
...under Robert Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life as it was lived in the big dirty city and stay...
...town gays and whose new book, Out in the World, depicts gays in a dozen other countries. AIDS divides older gays, the generation most at risk because it was active during the years before people knew about safe sex, from the teens and twentysomethings. Explains Miller: "A lot of younger gays have practiced safe sex their entire lives without any sense of deprivation, and they often see this disease as belonging to my generation, not theirs." These older men, even when healthy, are surrounded by dying friends and mournful memories. Their juniors have lived through fewer funerals and resent...
Some of the generational split is ideological. The younger gays are more apt to be publicly outspoken about their sexuality and militant about social issues. They provide the bulk of the manpower for ACT-UP and Queer Nation, the two largest militant groups, and they are the gays most likely to endorse such extreme tactics as "outing" -- exposing the secret homosexuality of people who are judged to have hurt the movement or, sometimes, simply to have failed to do enough to help it. Older gay men are more apt to be somewhat closeted, to emphasize working within the system rather...
...been the owner's hobbies. Another is Puig's exquisitely decorated house for the Baron Quadras, now a museum of musical instruments; a third, the Venetian-Gothic Casa Marti, housed the center of Barcelona's artistic bohemia, the Four Cats cafe, where established artists like Ramon Casas hobnobbed with younger ones like Picasso...