Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...activist '60s, many suburban whites cared (even if rather naively) about the problems of urban blacks; in the materialistic '90s, suburban whites, like urban blacks and just about everyone else, care mostly about themselves...
...Homework is done in radically different environments and is biased against poorer kids," says Etta Kralovec, director of educational studies at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. In the early '90s she surveyed Maine high school dropouts, who all cited their inability to keep up with homework as a major factor in the decision to leave school. Kralovec's solution to the inequities: "Homework should be done in school by all students--poor, middle and upper class--so that they all have the same access to computers and teachers." Boston's Dorchester High School has taken...
...comfortable applying the language of adult sexual harassment and sexual discrimination to kids? It's hard to tell if today's children behave much better or much worse than those of the past, since sexual-harassment studies are new to the '90s. Davis supporters believe they can draw a valid parallel to workplace sexual harassment, where once common behavior is now seen as unacceptable. "It's the same behavior, and it comes from the same place," says Martha Davis, legal director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. But opponents point out that children can be cruel without fully...
...well be that Fosse's dark sensibility will prove even better suited to the '90s than it was to the '70s. How else to explain why theatergoers are cheering a plotless show without a single love song, an evening-long shudder of disillusion in which the women are hookers, the men pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil...
...indigenous artist is producing better, more authentic music that will never be widely heard. In this compilation, rocker David Byrne plays it cool, stands back and simply presents the original work of some of his favorite Brazilian artists. The album draws on samba as well as psychedelic rock and '90s clubland rhythms. It's all a lot of fun, though one wishes it could, at times, be a little less lighthearted. Listeners searching for more depth should check out last year's Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, a collection of Brazilian pop drawn mostly from...