Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feminism to fade away because it can't replenish its troops? Gloria Steinem says no. Young women have never provided feminism's shock troops, she says, and to assume otherwise reflects a male model of activism that has never applied to women. "I wasn't a feminist in my 20s either," she says. Where men tend to get more conservative as they get older, "it's always been the older women who are more radical than the younger women." Her reasoning is that young men have nothing to lose by being rebellious. "Women have more social power when they...
According to psychologists, serial killers are usually white males in their 20s or 30s. Aileen Wuornos may be an exception. In De Land, Fla., last week the 35-year-old drifter was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of electronics repairman Richard Mallory. He was one of at least seven male motorists who authorities believe have been lured to their death since 1989 by a man-hating prostitute...
...stage and screen. Rebecca, the daughter (Victoria Abril), is a sulky Cinderella who has always felt herself the ignored victim of celebrity. As a child, she took the slights hard, switching uppers for downers in her stepfather's medicine bottles, just prior to his demise. Now in her late 20s, Rebecca is still mom- crazy: she's married to one of her mother's old lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years in Mexico, the lover-husband dies too. Welcome back to the loopy world of Pedro...
...period after World War I was a time of both modernism and nostalgia. Americans were exhilarated by a sense of the new but also yearned for the traditional. In the '20s newly minted products were routinely labeled STRICTLY AMERICAN. Collecting Americana -- "antiqueering," as it was known -- become a national hobby. Henry Ford filled warehouses with what he called "American stuff": Duncan Phyfe tables, endless volumes of McGuffey Readers and Thomas Edison memorabilia. John D. Rockefeller Jr. set about restoring colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the painstaking detail that only a billionaire could afford. In the '30s the New Deal was sponsoring...
Every American town had its Roxy, its Bijou, its Majestic. The great movie theaters built between the '20s and the '50s were cathedrals of popular culture. This book provides a sentimental journey to these palaces, evoking a time when life seemed like a Saturday matinee...