Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only is this dialogue unplayable (kudos to Gooding for not even sniggering); it makes God sound slovenly, like a bosomy mama hanging out a tenement window in an old Italian movie. The denizens of hell, meanwhile, appear to be damned for their lack of self-esteem--a quintessentially '90s view of sin. Forgive yourself, and cue beautiful music...
AlliedSignal, like many FORTUNE 500 companies in the '90s, has added to the unemployment rolls at the same time it has been collecting welfare. Over the past three years, the company has shed thousands of jobs as it acquired other companies. Right now, Allied is making a run at AMP, a Harrisburg, Pa., producer of connectors for computers. If Allied wins, more pink slips are expected...
...there were a "pasts" market on the stock exchange similar to the futures market, it would be prudent to start investing in the midcentury now. For if ever one decade were in love with another, the '90s is crazy about the '50s. This is not the '50s of Happy Days or Pleasantville, where people are decent but unsophisticated. This is the sleekly glamorous decade of architects Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Albert Frey and designers Charles and Ray Eames. This is the decade when the rest of the world looked with envy at American products, homes and life...
...been flying out the door," he says. Even failures from the period are being revived. Telstar, a tiny start-up company in Milwaukee, Wis., is offering a reproduction of the Predicta TV set, which was a spectacular failure when it was first introduced in 1958. The updated model has '90s amenities, such as color and a remote control, costs more than $2,000 and already has competitors...
...talk of a trend in the '90s, of course, has to be tempered by the consideration that this is a pick-'n'-package decade, its denizens choosing parts of many eras and repackaging them for easier and faster consumption. Witness the mini glam-rock revival rippling through the culture just this month. Regard for the Contemporary style, as this breed of modernism is often known, has risen steadily, however. "After living in one of these homes for a week," says Koenig of his designs, "people can never go back to a conventional house with little windows...