Word: youthe
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...that our political system is chronically dysfunctional and requires a new form of therapy to be rehabilitated. Every day our government spends a billion more dollars than it takes in. This debt, $4.2 trillion today and growing out of control, is the cruelest tax yet invented: a tax on youth...
They are, in fact, the adorable inheritors of a threatened Irish subculture, that of the Travellers, or Celtic Gypsies. It is their grandfather, who continues to follow the old, threatened ways, who brings the animal he calls ! Tir na nOg (Land of Eternal Youth in Gaelic) to them in the unhappy Dublin housing project where they live with their father (Gabriel Byrne), who abandoned his free-roving heritage after his wife's death...
...firmer fan than their maestro for the evening, Met music director James Levine. He bridles when critics chant the over-the-hill blues -- that Domingo has lost his top notes or that Pavarotti phones in the arias. Says Levine: "When Pavarotti sings L'Elisir d'Amore with such youth and spontaneity or Domingo explores the depths of Parsifal, now that is artistry...
...Once the youth culture dissipates, there will be less reason for tourists to come visit. Sure, the Statue of Three Lies will remain, but without Bartley's and Discount Records and the Garage, there's little reason for tourists to make the trip...
Rare is the report of urban youth blowing each other away over who gets to blow bubbles first or whether to paint the city in fuscia or ver-million...