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...journey of life comes with a clear itinerary, and according to the schedule, our 20s and early 30s should be devoted to procreation. By the time we reach 35 or so, our reproductive mission ought to be complete, and nature will pretty much have lost interest in us. More and more, however, early middle-agers have spent their pre-35 years building careers and waited until 40 looms and the reproductive last call sounds before finally beginning the business of making babies...
...then I got to thinking. Baseball has never had a real commissioner, at least not since Judge Landis back in the '20s and '30s. Every one, from Chandler to Ueberroth, has been a pawn of the owners, and the two since then are either deposed or no longer with...
...former pot user. "Mustang Susan," as she was soon dubbed, quickly trotted out the "youthful-experimentation" defense, an option not available to vice-presidential short-lister Connie Mack, whose shot at the ticket can't have been helped by news that he was still lighting up in his 30s...
...Allen, whose dialogue has often provided ironic counterpoint to Gershwin melodies, has made Everyone Says I Love You, in which Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda and others break into song. Fortunately, the scary prospect of Alda warbling is balanced by the songs themselves--swank standards of the '30s...
...guys in the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam are only in their 30s, but the group's newest album, No Code, makes it sound as if they're having a midlife crisis. The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord-stripping song Lukin, restrained and dreamy on the ballad Off He Goes and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number Present Tense. Sonic variety can be a good thing--the Smashing Pumpkins' brilliant double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, also veered all over...