Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...currently sitting on the council, only two, Walter J. Sullivan and Sheila T. Russell, remain of the old-time politicos who used to dominate the city's political scene. According to Dixon, Councillor Timothy J. Toomey Jr., who often votes with the CCA block, epitomizes the new breed of younger, issueminded Independents who are cropping up in council and School Committee races...
...unclear how much the offer will save the University in the long run, but some vacant positions will not be filled and others will likely be taken by younger, less-skilled, lower-salaried employees, according to Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott, in an interview earlier this year...
...long-entrenched family business of East Cambridge's Inman Square are facing the realities of economic change, as the recession, a rise in crime and market shifts towards a younger clientele take their toll on the square's economy. Those changes are disproportionately hurting the square's smaller, less sophisticated businesses, residents and business owners...
...Sant adores characters who are literally too sensitive for words. This recommends his work to the serious younger audience, which tends to mime its discontents by striking sullen poses. But it is not a useful attribute for a maker of sound movies. Neither is Van Sant's disdain for narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...
...Academy of Arts in London (through Dec. 15) in the same way as someone born after 1960. The oldie remembers the exuberant optimism of art's embrace of the mass media that lay at the core of Pop: superficial, maybe, but promising a fresh world of demotic feeling. The younger visitor, whose baby sitter was a TV set, is more likely to wonder what the fuss was about. Haven't we always been denizens of the electronic empire -- fixated but skeptical, knowing how it cons us, yet unable to jump clear of the game of image manipulation...