Word: younger
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This bustling leftie docu-fomenting could make Spurlock a younger Michael Moore. Each man is from a working-class city - Flint, Mich., for Moore; Parkersburg, W. Va, for Spurlock - whose hard economic history has produced low median incomes. Each came to documentaries after working in other fields: journalism for Moore, playwrighting for Spurlock. And each puts his own quirky personality at the center of issue-driven movies; they both make ego-friendly documentaries. But where Moore is belligerent (and funny), Spurlock is laid-back (and funny). Moore, the provocateur, pokes his finger in his adversaries' chests. Spurlock plays the sweet...
...often goes something like this: an immigrant family lands in America, pursuing economic or political freedom. Its members are dogged by battles to secure permanent residency and jobs commensurate with their sense of self-worth. As these take place, nostalgia builds for Asian traditions, from which the family's younger generations have begun to drift. Cross-cultural and cross-generational misunderstandings multiply, but at the novel's denouement the family learns to ambivalently accept their new country...
...wanting to part with it, I called my mom to get her to talk me out of selling it. "When are you doing this?" she asked. "I have a lot of gold I'd love to get rid of. I wear more costumey, fun stuff. I think it's younger-looking." I do not have a particularly sentimental mother...
...Yorio (Broadway). With its comparatively prim language and earnest encouragements, The Girl's Guide is like chick-lit for M.B.A.s: "You've figured out where you are. And realized that you're not satisfied. Of course, you're not. Ambitious girls never are." This book is pitched to a younger audience than DiSesa's, which speaks to the more seasoned and frustrated businesswoman. The Girl's Guide is best for female neophytes, who will welcome its empowering patter: "Don't accept that you are the girl who never gets what she wants. Instead, become the girl who makes it happen...
...Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened to disown her favorite younger boy. The papers called her "Lady Macbeth"; she fled to Pakistan and died alone...