Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been scooped by the editors of Esquire magazine. A few months ago, they asked the most important question of the 1990s: Is it better to be hip than smart? And of course, it is far better to be hip than smart. What they should have asked was, why is it better to be hip than smart? The Esquire editors had Jerry Seinfeld on their cover, but really, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson's weekly magazine which chronicles the feats and foibles of students here, could just as easily have been on their mind...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...
Being the modern classes of the 1990s, we're also busy as bees typing our hearts out over the internet. There are hundreds of messages against randomization, and we had planned to send you a big, big e-mail about it, but it turns out that not many people here cared that much to sign the electronic protest. So we're working in other areas. We were also going to call your office every five minutes, for however long it took, until you changed your mind. But again, we're saving that bombshell for another day. And besides, we like...
...paid agent of Jewish Colombian drug lords but who nonetheless are so deeply alienated from their government that they view it as their enemy. Most are not violent people, and many of them have understandable grievances about feeling left behind in the economic competition of the 1990s...
...sight of dead children opens an abyss in the mind, of course. The wound may heal better if we not only sift through rubble and the mystery of evil, but also look out at the horizon. A helpful exercise is to study Oklahoma City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published...