Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best pal Mars Blackmon, the hyperverbalizing Nike footwear flack on TV. But with scathing screeds like Do the Right Thing (1989) and the current Jungle Fever, Lee, 34, has carved a niche for fierce minority movies -- a niche that can be enlarged by other directors who are even younger, more choleric, closer to the action if not to the edge. Call them the Spikettes...
Those who have heard him play would say that Shedroff already knows the sax. He played with the Harvard Jazz Band until his junior year, and since then has performed in New Orleans and San Antonio with Delfeayo Marsalis, younger brother of the better known Branford and Winton. Shedroff's name pops up often in New England jazz circles, and he has jammed with the best of Boston...
Israeli diplomats consider these moves to be modest and tentative but welcome nonetheless. American Jewish leaders and members of Congress have been lobbying hard for the shift. So, much more quietly, have some younger civil servants inside several Japanese ministries. They see their country's compliance with the boycott as symptomatic of the parochialism and selfishness that have until now marked Japan's definition of its role in the world...
...Teen Murti (Three Statues) after Nehru had taken it over as the prime ministerial residence. Now the Nehru Memorial, it was the house in which Indira Gandhi had served her father as hostess during the early years of independence. It was an era in which Rajiv and his younger brother Sanjay saw most of the world's major political figures trip through: Presidents and kings, commissars and emerging Third World statesmen. One anecdote relates that the young Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were missing at the house during a visit. The spiritual leaders of Tibetans were found...
Beyond Rajiv's immediate family, there are other Gandhis and Nehrus interested in taking up the family business. Maneka Gandhi, 34, widow of Rajiv's younger brother Sanjay, is highly ambitious and politically astute, currently holding office as Minister of Environment. But she quarreled with the family when Indira cut her out of the succession after Sanjay's death, and joined the opposition. The only other possible choice is Arun Nehru, 47, a cousin of Rajiv's and a former corporate executive who once was Minister of Internal Security in Rajiv's Cabinet. But the two fell...