The duel of purposeful young ambition and and malicious aged recalcitrance cedes to a blindingly simple desire.
It looks lovely: "Meatballs," on the other hand, is unrecognizable: What was once a tale about how a small town copes with disaster and the downside of having too much of a good thing is now the story of young ambition gone awry (a science experiment accounts for the food showers in the movie), with a host of new characters, rumbling jokes, and backstories.
"...It makes the prophet in us all presage The glory of a next Augustan age Of a power leading from its strength and pride, Of young ambition eager to be tried, Firm in our free beliefs without dismay, In any game the nations want to play.
Kharms's lines captured the inchoate world inherited by his young readers, its new ambitions and old problems.
It depends on the falling away of all the things that blight our happiness when we're younger: ambition, competitiveness, stress, unfulfilled dreams and hopes.
Recent research suggests that young peoples' ambitions don't tend to match the demands of the jobs market.
Urrutia Lacroix tells a disjointed story of his young literary ambitions, his adoption for mentoring -- and surreptitious groping -- by the country's most eminent critic, a member of the landed aristocracy.
The most reliable siphon for young financial ambition has been shut off.
In young writers, ambition often sprints ahead of accomplishment, then stops and waits for the gap to close.
JH 33 Brit & Alex, Let It Go (Hometown/Interscope) 2 stars Identical twins with oppositional hair, Brit & Alex are the sound of naked young American ambition.
