Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temperature rises into the low 90s, the perspiring Marines break for lunch on the spot. A major tribulation is that dinner, once a full meal served in the mess tent, now often consists of field-issue MREs (meals, ready-to-eat) like hamburger, turkey tetrazzini and other delights that can be made almost edible by warming the packages in hot water, sunlight or even under an armpit. Some Marines lift weights; others read books (mostly science fiction, thrillers and mysteries). Like lonely troopers everywhere, many of them use their idle hours chiefly to write home. Seated at a picnic table...
...planning to overhaul areas of its intimate-apparel departments to feature the collection. But Vice President Kal Ruttenstein predicts that the briefs and boxers will be worn outside too, for sports and at the beach. Says he: "It will bring women's underwear into the '90s...
...Europe has been sweltering this summer as temperatures have soared into the 90s. But the hottest spot on the Continent last week had to be the small West German city of Bayreuth, site of the annual Richard Wagner opera festival. Inside a broiling, stifling Festspielhaus, an elegant first-night crowd shed its tuxedo jackets along with its customary solemn decorum as it watched, with growing disappointment, impatience and finally anger, a new production of Wagner's 16-hour, four-evening German myth, Der Ring des Nibelungen, by two British knights, Director Sir Peter Hall and Conductor Sir Georg Solti...
...underdog; Eddie, in front of the cameras or away from them, is a hot dog, full of sass and guileless assurance. The Murphy analysis: "Richard's funny as the victim, but I'm funnier when I try to fight back. Maybe the star of the '90s will be the funny black guy who runs the show. It would be nice to see that progression...
Displays spilled out of the main arena and into six unairconditioned tents, where conventioneers sweltered when Santa Ana winds pushed the temperature well into the 90s. Yet the heat hardly suffocated the enthusiasm. Everyone, after all, was participating in America's glamour and growth industry. As Robert Lane, president of Commodore Business Machines, observed glowingly, "The consumer just has an insatiable desire for computing at the moment...