Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here he is at Pottery Barn, sitting on the counter. Pottery Barn, like many other retail chains these days, is selling a variety of CD collections showcasing the kind of music it would like you to associate with spending. One of its offerings is PB Swing, featuring songs by '90s swing acts with one-hit-wonderish names like the Flying Neutrinos. But there's also one track, Take the "A" Train, by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. One wonders if the differences--and connections--between Duke and the new crop aren't lost in a blur of consumerism and retro-hipness...
...friend Steven Spielberg, Star Wars supremo Lucas doesn't make campaign contributions to the Democrats or, as far as we know, anyone. But could there be a heavy hint of party affiliation in his latest epic? Consider: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, written in the mid-'90s and shot in scandal-filled 1998, opens with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute's ally in the Galactic Senate is known as Lott, and Lott's main...
NATURAL SELECTION The U.S. Postal Service recently announced that video games and the fall of the Berlin Wall top the list of subjects Americans want on stamps representing the 1980s. Next month people will vote on '90s stamps. We asked ninetysomethings and nine-and-unders for their input. Can you guess who chose what...
...most redeemable aspect of The Harmonistsis not the movie's sensitive portrayal of characters or its uplifting ending. It is (now prepare yourselves) its authenticity, its un-American-ness. There is no backlighting, no svelte bodies on parade, no '90s-influenced costumes or setting. This by no means implies that the movie does not have its share of glamour; it's just that its style is as dark, European and heavy as Germany in the '30s would have been. Unfortunately, if we follow the inverse proportion of authenticity to box office success, we will realize, of course, that this very...
...Natalie Imbruglia's somber "Troubled by the Way We Came Together" and Goldo's "To All the Lovely Ladies." The Go soundtrack don't impress me much, but is nonetheless fun stuff. Like the movie, it's an exhilarating, even if non-committal, ride through music genres of the '90s...