Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Oriol admits that today's world is different from the world of the late '60s. In the late '90s, we probably eye her "listen to your heart" advice with some suspicion. Sure, a pressure exists, especially at Harvard, to go into professions that will make the hefty Harvard tuition worth the expense...
...urbane entertainment consumer there is perhaps no scarier assessment of a cultural product than one that includes the words, "It will make you laugh; it will make you cry." The '90s have left people so well nourished on irony and irrelevance that many of us have no digestive tolerance left for movies, television shows or books that want to be both funny and heartfelt. And can we be blamed when, so often, that impulse results in something like The Mirror Has Two Faces...
Sadly, the President's Cabinet, like the upper echelons of most corporations, remains more like baseball in 1947 than basketball in the '90s. So few blacks have risen to that level that the rules governing first blacks still apply. That is why black parents, including Espy's, admonish their children that they must be twice as prepared--and twice as honest--as their white counterparts if they want to succeed. And why during the glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures...
...exception. The acting of most of the primary players is often effective and is sometimes very compelling. The plot itself works for roughly half the film, and we are privy to some meaningful character insights on occasion. Furthermore, when in its satiric mode, Hard Core Logo does for 90s punk what Spinal Tap did for late 70s/early 80s rock...
Many of the classes offered within the English department, such as English 90s: "Virginia Woolf," are about a specific author, while others, such as English 179k: "American Autobiography," deal with specific areas...