Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopeful? Perhaps. But it's no pipe dream. Technology, whose image has suffered under a century's worth of dictators, Orwellian novels and a long cold war, is becoming a key to the revitalization of U.S. politics. The 1990s are witnessing technology's re-emergence in the healthier role foreseen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as an enabler and propagator of democracy...
...year 2025 at a prestigious Eastern-seaboard college. A professor of American studies is addressing the packed class for his course "From Wham! to Pearl Jam: Aesthetic Shifts in Late 20th Century Popular Culture." The 1990s were a Golden Age in the history of American tastes, he argues, a decade of pared-down chic superior to the one that preceded it. To bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about...
Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein put Croce "under the aegis of the Great Newt, [where] a traditionalist may safely rage against the rise of minorities." Conservative art critic Hilton Kramer saw things differently, calling the piece "the most definitive essay on the arts in the 1990s that any American critic has yet written ... a landmark in the cultural history...
...these suburbs have developed tremendous crime problems too.'' Perhaps more important, the nature of crime has changed. Thirty years ago, most murderers knew their victims: many were spouses, lovers or family members. Police solved more than 90% of all reported homicides. But in the 1990s, police find that most murders are committed by strangers or people whose identity and motive cannot be determined. As a result, homicide-solution rates plunged from...
...Agency. "They have physically unhardened soldiers commanded by officers who have had to sell off most of their equipment just to keep the troops fed." A senior Pentagon official who visited Russia recently saw "missile units foraging in the countryside for food like it was the 1890s, not the 1990s...