Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gerhard Schroder loves New York. His wife Doris, 35, a former radio journalist whom he married last fall, loves it even more, having lived in Manhattan as a single working mom in the early '90s. "In fact, my seven-year-old stepdaughter Clara is an American, because she was born in the U.S.," Schroder bragged to friends at a political bash in Hanover. "And Doris is always telling me, Let's go live in New York...
...early '90s, transgenders started forming political groups, mostly street-level organizations, which picketed the American Psychiatric Association, for instance, for using the gender-identity-disorder diagnosis. Previously, transgenders appeared as figures in the early gay-liberation movement: it was cross-dressing men--their "hair in curls," as they chanted--who threw the first rocks in the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village. But as the gay movement went mainstream, it jettisoned transgenders as too off-putting...
...feminism was able to survive the dramatic backlash of the 1970s, it will surely survive the '90s. SOMA RAY Princeton Junction...
DIED. KAY THOMPSON, in her 90s, entertainer and creator of the Plaza Hotel's most memorable guest, six-year-old Eloise; in New York City. Thompson was a successful nightclub performer who appeared as a Vreelandesque fashion editor in the movie Funny Face, but her most enduring character was Eloise, an irascible girl whose mischievous exploits while living in New York City's Plaza Hotel Thompson first chronicled in a 1955 book. Originally targeted for adults but beloved by children ever since, Eloise starred in three more best-selling books and a line of merchandise...
...writing to tell Horn that she should really get with the '90s when it comes to the notion of permanence. I consider my marriage to be a permanent part of my life, but that's about it. This is the decade of the temp. A "career" today is far more likely to be a succession of "temporary" jobs than a thirty-year stint with a single employer. This is true even for doctors, lawyers, computer programmers and others with reasonably marketable skills...