Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in California, Cunanan bounced up to San Francisco in the early '90s, where he lived off older men whenever he could. Though his mother has described him to reporters as "a high-class male prostitute," none of his friends thinks he rented by the hour. His wealthy lovers gave him the money for his expensive clothes and the $1,000 restaurant tabs he would pick up for groups of friends. Cunanan was presentable, sufficiently well informed about politics and the arts to make conversation, and given to conservative, preppy clothes, or sweatshirts and a baseball cap. Versace's glam...
...early '90s, Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan were war zones, teeming with guns. Since the Dorchester district court first began imposing curfews in 1991, the city's gangs can no longer hang with impunity on crack corners at midnight...
...year was star, director and co-writer of the dark comedy A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, in which he is wrongly arrested and tries to get a restraining order on a woman who is out to kill him. His new film has all the moves of a '90s action comedy: the macho bonding and bantering, the glints of earthy wit overshadowed by gun waving and pratfalling--exactly what you'd expect from director Steve Oedekerk, the auteur of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls...
...Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu at his stops in Florida, Connecticut, upstate New York and Ohio. "Steaks. Italian. Chinese. Yesterday I took him to the Second Avenue Deli, and he gulped down matzoh-ball...
...HANKS The George Bailey of the '90s. America's latest Everyman...