Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listened to his records or seen him perform knows, Isaak is the genuine article: a pompadoured anachronism who grew up in the blue-collar cow town of Stockton, California, listening to Dean Martin, Louis Prima and Hank Williams Senior. By putting a cutting-edge gloss on a vintage 1950s and early '60s sound, Isaak, like Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang, avoids parody by dint of sheer talent and a playful sense of irony...
When a child of the 1950s was told that video phones and rocket packs were just around the corner, he believed all the giddy hype, desperately wanted every whiz-bang contraption, couldn't wait for the new technological dawn . . . and then waited, and waited, year after disappointing year, making do with aerosol cheese and pocket calculators and feeling finally that those Jetsons promises might never be fulfilled...
...1950s, for example, Lieberman passed out leaflets for Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson...
...three months each decade, so the urges that once landed at 14 may now hit at 12. At the same time, the years of premarital sexual maturity are much greater than a generation ago. The typical age of a first marriage has jumped to 25, from 21 in the 1950s...
...April 15th, the Batelle Human Research Center in Seattle published the first serious study on gender and sexual behavior since the much-touted Kinsey report of the 1950s. Interestingly, it found that only 2 percent of the American population engage in homosexual activity, firmly contradicting the 10 percent figure from the Kinsey report that homosexual activists have proclaimed all along...