Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their heart: men and women are so different, they might as well come from different planets--and can't we all just get along? But it is a message with enough of a truthful core that it struck a popular nerve at a very particular time: the early '90s, when it again became permissible for people to discuss gender difference. For this, thanks must be given to Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which perched on the New York Times best-seller list for close to two years...
...company is what it will take to match wits with British Telecom and Nippon Telephone in the year 2525, if man is still alive. SBC brings proven phone-company management to the party, which might help sell the deal. What we know for sure, though, is that in the '90s every Baby Bell stock has outperformed AT&T. I'll take spin-offs over spin...
...editor of a men's magazine, a great deal of your workday must necessarily be devoted to answering the question, What does the man of the '90s want? The current issues of a number of men's magazines provide a possible answer: puns involving the words ball or balls. THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR BALLS promises a piece on golf in GQ. DON'T DROP THE BALL says the headline to an article in Men's Health urging early detection of testicular cancer. Maxim, a rude import from Britain that has just published its premiere issue in America, features a photograph...
...what else, besides crude puns, does the man of the '90s want? As masculine tastes have evolved from Old Spice to Tiffany for Men and L'Eau d'Issey Pour L'Homme (to name but two of the 10 fragrances advertised in the current GQ), men's magazines have kept pace--so much so that in certain respects, they are becoming hard to distinguish from women's magazines. LOSE THE FAT IN 21 DAYS...THE EASIEST WAY TO LOOK BETTER...POWERFUL LEGS...67 NUTRITION TIPS are some of the cover lines from the June Men's Health, the decade...
...power pop band Foo Fighters has a lot to live up to. The band's singer and chief songwriter, David Grohl, was the drummer for one of the most revered rock bands of the '90s, Nirvana. And although most of the songs on Foo Fighters' eponymous 1995 debut were about as distinctive as taxi cabs, the album did feature a few standout numbers, including the air guitar-worthy This Is a Call. Overall, it was promising...