Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the most controversial claims in Stiffed is Faludi's defense of the Spur Posse, a group of male high school students in the early 1990s who engaged in a sex-for-points contest that rocked their Lakewood, Calif., community and received national media attention...
...want to go out there and lose," McEnroe insists. Yet he has lost frequently to Connors, who won 12 of the first 14 tour events, and to others in the mid-1990s. But he did manage to put some personal difficulties behind him; he improved his concentration, worked hard at getting back into condition and last year won the No. 1 ranking in senior tennis...
Sampras torched Agassi and the rest of the field on Wimbledon's grass. And he has since beaten Agassi twice on hard courts, but the matches were close enough to have rekindled new interest in the Great 1990s Tennis Rivalry (That Didn't Happen). "It's good for tennis in America to have us two going at it like we've been the past couple of months," said Sampras after their third dance. "I feel a certain buzz with the rivalry kind of kicking...
...late 1990s, so it was in the early 1930s. The same clamor, with different causes and results. Back then, the social eruptions came not from random acts of carnage but from an economic collapse that whacked the country. The films of the early '30s are full of clues to America's mood in the first long ache of the Great Depression: frantic, feisty, obsessed with getting a job, a buck and ahead by any means necessary. Today's typical film is a fairy tale; the '30s pictures played like tabloid journalism--the March of Crime. Gangsters, gold diggers, ruthless businessmen...
DROP IN DRUG USE According to a government survey, fewer teens used illegal drugs in 1998 than in the previous year, a welcome dip after higher rates during most of the 1990s. Older teens showed the deepest declines, with 26.8% reporting having used an illegal substance in the month before the survey, in contrast to 30.7% last year. While the report probably underestimates actual drug use, officials view the drop, along with relatively steady rates of drug use over the past few years, as a sign that teens are beginning to heed antidrug messages...