Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I turned ten a funny thing happened: I started desiring to be younger (a much more problematic thing from the point of view of theoretical physics). Even at that age I instinctively disliked exchanging the vastness of the possible for the narrowness of the concrete. I wanted to remain forever at an age when I could still believe that I might grow up to be a professor, a firefighter, a musician or a carpenter. Furthermore, the scatological humor, casual cruelty and intellectual indifference of my own peers troubled...
says. "There is a vast community of younger people who have made money...
...awkward to face the gulf between these two brothers as it is difficult to overestimate the depth of feeling that once passed between them. Ted's life was steeped in rejection, isolation and anger; through it all, his younger brother was the only person ever to connect with...
...lineup of low-budget "lifestyle documentaries" that allow viewers to peer into the lives of real people as they experience key rites of passage. Last month's premiere of A Dating Story (you guessed it, real blind dates) grabbed the No. 1 cable ranking in its time slot among younger women--a coup all the more remarkable because TLC has so far done no advertising for daytime, relying entirely on word of mouth...
...course, this too is fiction: a tribute to and ripoff of Nabokov. Pera gives Lo a younger brother, who died in a freak accident (tornado, live wire), and a lingering devotion to her dead dad, for whom Humbert is a sexier surrogate. Lo records scenes of innocent sapphic frolics, moviegoing (It's a Wonderful Life is about "how everything turns out right because the father didn't die after all") and quarrels with her bossy, desperate...