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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, it's hard to imagine a culture more conducive to feelings of sexual inadequacy than America in the 1990s. Tune in to the soaps. Flip through the magazines. Listen to Oprah. Lurk in the seamier corners of cyberspace. What do you see and hear? An endless succession of young, hard bodies preparing for, recovering from or engaging in constant, relentless copulation. Sex is everywhere in America - and in the ads, films, TV shows and music videos it exports abroad. Although we know that not every zip code is a Beverly Hills, 90210, and not every small town a Peyton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...Cuneo. "Well, King Canute," asks Cuneo, "what more do you really want?" With tremendous vehemence, Winchell replies, "I want all the news in the world." Then the world's most powerful columnist adds, "And all its money too." With these values Winchell would truly be at home in the 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Ex-Hoofer Colyumnist Gets Big Biog | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...1990s, students are indoctrinated with marketing and advertising," says media relations officer Pam Bush. "We have to put our program forward in a way that's appealing--to make things easy and user-friendly...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Radcliffe Launches Publicity Blitz | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

Proposition 187 is truly a referendum for the 1990s: if successful, the initiative will constitute a dramatic statement by voters that if the government does not move to solve the immigration problem, the people will. In a country built by immigrants, it is a measure of the deep dissatisfaction with the generosity of the welfare state that the public has seized on aliens as the enemy within. A TIME/CNN poll determined last week that 77% of those surveyed felt the government was not doing enough to keep out illegal immigrants. For years now, the battle has raged between the federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep Out, You Tired, You Poor... | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Such a conversation could have been reality, but then the '60s vision met the 1990s. There are more people in the world now, so everyone wants their space. It was nobody's fault, really. The spirit of separatism just kind of rose up and took over, and soon roughly 90 faculty members in the humanities were lobbying a professional consultant hired by the administration (after all, who has time anymore to talk directly to the people who work for you?) for bigger offices...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Humanities Quadded | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

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