Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heated atmosphere of early-'90s gender politics, in which Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment before an audience of millions, Paglia quickly began turning up all over the media voicing her controversial opinions on the sex wars. Feminism wasted time trying to persuade us that men are tameable, she proclaimed. Relish sexual power, she told women, but don't go to frat parties expecting men to be saints. The argument was powerful and full of merit, but deployed by lesser minds it quickly devolved into an excuse for media-hungry would-be feminists to share their adventures...
...booming '90s, the answer is: everything you possibly can. Advertise in any way you know how, including skywriting. Don't forget the Internet; if your company doesn't have a home page, get one quick. Scout the "job fairs" popping up around the country, created for desperate people like you, or organize a fair of your own. And tell your campus recruiters to make their offers to top engineers, computer programmers and chemists more like the deals sports teams shower on athletes--including signing bonuses. Says Jim Bretl, director of the career-services center at Marquette University in Milwaukee...
...others call it a nightmare. For me, this onstage persona has been my other life for the past 2 1/2 years. Several times a month I'm out there with my fresh-from-the-headlines political jokes, trying to become the Mort Sahl of the '90s. The New York Observer described one of my early performances: "He holds the microphone like a dead fish." Trust me, I've grown as an artist. I have a monthly gig, along with four other talented baby-boomer comics, at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan. The Washington Post dubbed our performance LAUGH RIOT...
Bart Simpson is an underachiever--"and proud of it," as a million T shirts read, back when The Simpsons began its run on Fox and he was the first fad of the '90s. Remember "Eat my shorts"? Recall "Cowabunga" and "Ay, caramba"? His fame skyrocketed in no time; burnout was virtually assured...
...Bart's blackboard punishments was to write, "I am not delightfully saucy." But he is, he is--a complex weave of grace, attitude and personality, deplorable and adorable, a very '90s slacker who embodies a century of popular culture and is one of the richest characters in it. One thinks of Chekhov, Celine, Lenny Bruce, little boy lost. Anyway, we love the kid and his endlessly terrific show; so here he is in the TIME...