Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill has caused divisions among feminists and women politicians, Hudner said. "It's sort of a Pied Piper of older women pushing younger women into believing that censorship is acceptable in a free society," she said...
...Halley's comet in Mississippi, from a line in the memoirs of Eudora Welty. K.T. Oslin once made a living as a Broadway chorus girl, and when she turned to country in her mid-40s, it was to sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women sleeping with younger men. Even the down-home Reba McEntire, who spent her youth on her father's ranch and on the rodeo circuit, went on to college, where she studied classical violin and piano and "analyzed Mozart every which...
Although star casting seems an instant boon, drawing in new and younger audiences and allowing more plays to have larger-scale life, some theater leaders fret that they may be doing themselves long-term harm, creating a costly or even unsustainable expectation that every show will have a splash of celebrity. Says Emanuel Azenberg, who produces Neil Simon's work: "The real problems the theater has are not solved by a momentary sense of breath that the stars bring us." Instead of thinking about how to cut costs and reach a broader audience, producers who employ stars typically have...
...through April 19 at the Whitney Museum in New York City, then moves to Houston on May 16, puts his famous dog pictures in the context of his career as an artist whose specialty has been mildly cerebral jokes. For the Conceptualists, whose outlook was just taking hold among younger artists when Wegman was at the University of Illinois in the mid-'60s, anything could be art so long as it wasn't a painting or sculpture, those luxury items that the galleries peddled to the bourgeoisie. Works were conceived as ideas to be preserved in whatever medium suggested itself...
Sharp differences emerged. Tsongas depicted himself as the champion of deferred gratification and Clinton as a politician merely trying to win votes by promising tax relief for ordinary Americans. Tsongas argued that the middle-class tax cut and the tax credit for children younger than 18 -- both moves favored by Clinton -- would divert $55 billion a year from investment. In Tsongas' mashed metaphor, Clinton would waste precious "bullets" that could be used to jump-start the economy's manufacturing "engine." Only "when the engine runs," Tsongas said, can the country afford "other kinds of things," such as tax relief...