Word: 1990s
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Since the movie was in fact made in the 1990s but takes place in the 1970s, Stewart must have simply done us all a favor by averaging the two decades together to arrive at her "'80s" characterization of the film...
...waning months of the 1980s, a Sovietologist named Francis Fukuyama published a provocative essay called "The End of History?" Fukuyama's thesis--that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant people would have nothing more to fight wars about--was soon disproved. The 1990s have not been short on history. The end of the cold war defrosted earlier rivalries that had been frozen for two generations, bringing bloody history back to places like Bosnia, where it had been in cold storage...
...1990s, however, have indeed been a period when the great arguments about how society should be organized seemed settled. Democracy blossomed in South Africa and Russia; even Vietnam embraced capitalism. Nevertheless, life has not been boring. If the melodrama of history has been subdued, the melodrama of technology burns bright. We still live in interesting times...
...blindered arrogance of the present to think of the 1990s as the decade of technology? Every decade in the 75 years since TIME was founded has seen everyday life transformed by invention. Is the Internet more life transforming than household electricity? Or air travel? Or television, frozen food and microwave ovens (to defrost the frozen food...
Most other shows have been through several hosts: believe it or not, Chuck Woolery (of "Love Connection" fame) hosted "Wheel of Fortune" before the legendary Pat Sajak took over. Further, as die-hard Wheel fans may recall, Sajak took a hiatus in the early 1990s to try his hand at late night television, leaving the show in the hands of Vanna White and several short-lived stiffs at a time when contestants still shopped for merchandise after each round. Some hosts have done double duty, like Alex Trebek, who at one time simultaneously hosted both "Jeopardy" and "Classic Concentration...