Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Look at it from a post-Gidget pop-cultural perspective, and the Bush era wasn't such a bad time to be a teenage girl. It was during the late 1980s and early '90s that knowing young women in hair dyed the darkest shade of no-one-understands-me seemed to claim their place in the Zeitgeist. Launched in 1988, the now defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those...
...today's unappreciative players, black and white, need is the attitude Robinson once displayed in an interview. "I'm not concerned with you liking me or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being," he said. How many players in the showboating '90s demand respect by their very presence? Robinson's quiet dignity and untiring quest for equality should be a legacy to people other than the players alone...
Unlikely as it may seem, some 700 people paid $10 each last week to get into a Manhattan auditorium and sit--or stand--through a panel discussion on "The Memoir Explosion: Novel of the '90s or Just Another Brand of Therapy?" Most attention went to two of the panelists: Frank McCourt, whose best-selling memoir, Angela's Ashes, had just the day before won a Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Kathryn Harrison, whose memoir The Kiss, also a best seller, tells of an incestuous affair between her and her father that began when she was 20. A year ago, hardly...
...should give Vuitton a high and profitable fashion profile--what he was hired to do--stepping into a company whose business is up 54% since it became part of LVMH. Last week Jacobs showed his own line of American classics with lots of cashmere and flannel--a sort of '90s Halston...
Economic reform accelerated through the early '90s with Deng's re-affirmation of China's open door policy, which suffered setbacks after 1989. The optimistic atmosphere led to a large flow of foreign investment into China from Hong Kong and other parts of Asia, as well as from the U.S. and Europe...