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...Real World” maintains the pretense of—the pun is inevitable—realism, casting such a predictably diverse group of people that they become their demographic archetypes. Each of the eight housemates fulfills a different quota, constituting a cross section of relatable youth culture. On the recent premiere of “The Real World: D.C.,” the first housemates to move in predicted the arrival of the “hot black guy” and the “gay guy” (the latter never came, but two of the cast...
...reformists' failure has opened the path for the return of Yanukovych, who won 35% of the vote in the first round, leading Tymoshenko by 10 percentage points. Yanukovych is a rags-to-riches figure - he was jailed twice in his youth for assault and robbery - who relies on the pro-Russian east and south of the country for support. His strategy this time round has been simple: remind voters of the mess the country is in and point the finger at his opponents. "Precisely while the orange government has been running the country, Ukraine gained one of the leading places...
...hopes “Albert Herring” will resonate with audiences at Harvard. “It’s an opera that is very much about young people, about the experience of being young. Even though most of the characters are older, the entire crisis is about youth and lost youth,” Kramer says...
...message boy, I’m a soldier, I’m a youth at a carnival,” he says. “I have very few speaking roles. It’s more a treat to watch professional actors work and see what it takes...
Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, was published in 1951 and gradually achieved a status that made him cringe. For decades the book was a universal rite of passage for adolescents, the manifesto of disenchanted youth. (Sometimes lethally disenchanted: After he killed John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman said he had done it to promote the reading of Salinger's book. A few months later, when he headed out to shoot President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. left behind a copy of the book in his hotel room.) But what matters is that even...