Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with The Laughing Sutra arises not from the story, but from the writing. Salzman writes with a juvenile style but discusses adult topics. While this style attracts a younger, Adventure-hungry audience, the book's message demands a more sophisticated reading. This tension will keep the novel from finding an audience that can fully appreciate...
...There is decidedly a disadvantage for American producers. It's very simple. We're a much longer-established manufacturer with an older work force, a great number of pensioners. When you have a new Japanese transplant, the average age is much younger, with no pension cost and usually a healthier, newer work force. Even if we do better on our production side and do better on our material costs, we've still got that overhang of pensions and health care to take care of. That's something as a nation we'll have to address, because it's going...
...very old lady (Jessica Tandy), confined to a nursing home, strikes up a friendship with a younger woman (Kathy Bates) who eats too much because she is emotionally starved by her marriage. What brings them together is a long, slightly shaggy story the older woman relates. It is about the friendship of headstrong Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and ladylike Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), two young women of the 1930s, and it involves home cooking, wife beating and a murder. It is an uneasy blend of (among other things) whimsy, melodrama, the Ku Klux Klan and feminist sentiment that coexists rather...
...Watts as they sit in the stuffy waiting room. "They were abused and hungry. They turned into children of the streets." Despite the grandmother's frequent requests, the children were not removed from the home. "((My daughter)) was selling furniture out of the house and threatened to kill the younger boy. I called protective services again. They went in and said the house looked O.K. It's the laxest organization I've ever seen...
Then Sweeney called the social-services department and explained that she was not well enough to care for her grandsons herself, but she wanted the brothers kept together. Instead the boys were placed in separate foster homes. Tommy, the younger, slept on a urine-stained mattress without a sheet. "He cried pitifully," Sweeney recalls. "He wouldn't eat or play. He sat with a shopping bag under his arm." The youngster was returned to his grandmother's house, but soon his mother, who temporarily cleaned herself up with the help of a detox program, regained custody of the boys...