Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...persistence. Amid a flotilla of alien invasions, The English Patient brought David Lean-like scope and passion back to the Cineplex. Still laboring under Khomeini's fatwa, Salman Rushdie produced what may be his greatest novel. A rock update of La Boheme brought the Broadway musical resoundingly into the '90s. The Fugees proved you can sell millions of rap records without gangsta's toxicity, while Tiger Woods broadened golf's horizons simply by showing up. And Jerry Seinfeld stayed funny, defying sitcomic entropy. So here's to the men and women who spat in mediocrity's eye and made...
...heroin, this gleefully amoral comedy turned a quartet of Scottish drug addicts into transatlantic icons. The denizens of the Edinburgh lower depths--blithe abusers of heroin, alcohol, nicotine and their best friends--are witty, cunning, brimming with the kind of sociopathic bravado that spells sexiness in the mid-'90s. Well, tsk-tsk and all that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star-in-the-making Ewan McGregor) and his mates...
...lingerie, this charismatic R. and B. theme album follows a single love affair from the eyes-meeting-across-a-crowded-club start all the way to the marriage-proposal endgame. Think Marvin Gaye. Think Smokey Robinson. Think classic soul that recalls the '70s but knows all about the '90s...
...Hewlett-Packard Home PC Pavilion "Sibling Rivalry" Using a pair of warring 10-somethings, this TV spot inventively shows us just how much an HP PC can do. Little sis wants her diary back, big brother won't budge, so she evens the score the way any '90s child would: the kid snaps a photo of her sibling playing air guitar, scans it into her computer and E-mails the image to his crush...
...with this jaded perspective that I entered the Old Library. To my great surprise, the Leverett production of "Hair" was absolutely spellbinding. I left humming, clapping and feeling that being young in the '90s is not so different from thirty years ago. Dare I say it? The show gave me a good dose of positive, cathartic youth angst. The cast was amazingly professional, something I had not ever associated with campus theater...