Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, if you have some extra trumpets and sousaphones you're looking to unload, you might want to head to Quincy, Mass., whose working-class community is all riled up over a more '90s type "threat" to their children...
...mother's generation says, "It was the '70s," with an air of understanding that sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll were O.K. before the Surgeon General got involved. But I was born in the '70s and inhaled in the '90s. By then, I knew the implications and the potential repercussions. I heard Nancy Reagan tell me to "just say no," but I eagerly said yes. Unlike my parents' generation, I can't blame my experimentation on a decade...
...wouldn't be caught dead in a jacket like that. Only a fraction of New Trier's pot smokers--the denizens of the Corner among them--view getting high as the main part of their identity. For most, marijuana is an ancillary pleasure of growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their parents did. The fact that they have tried pot won't cancel out the perks of good breeding...
...utterly unlike the majority of dramas and comedies on television. On no other cop show but Walker, for instance, does the fight between good and evil get so primal as to involve face-offs between man and grizzly bear in the Utah mountains. Moreover, while most sitcoms in the '90s strive for some semblance of urbanity, Married...with Children has worked hard at maintaining a level of crassness unparalleled in prime time. Where else on TV will a character awaken from a coma thanks to a whiff of smelly feet...
After installing the backbone of the computer network in the late 1980s and early '90s, Harvard left its use to individual parts of the community...