Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GIORGIO ARMANI Deconstructed but never lax looking, suits from the Italian master came to signify spare elegance in the '80s and '90s, not to mention a quiet, confident sense of power...
Lovers of poetry in the pre-Modernist era had been surviving on a thin diet of either Platonic idealism or a post-'90s "decadence," and it was felt that barbaric and businesslike America could not equal the sophistication of England. Eliot's vignettes of modern life (some sardonic, some elegiac), and his meditation on consciousness and its aridities, reclaimed for American poetry a terrain of close observation and complex intelligence that had seemed lost. The heartbreak under the poised irony of Eliot's work was not lost on his audience, who suddenly felt that in understanding Eliot, they understood themselves...
...Franklin's influence has only grown in the '90s. The dominant divas of this decade--Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton--are all, musically speaking, Sunday-school students of Aretha's. The queen still rules: early this year Franklin co-starred in a Divas Live benefit concert on the cable channel VH-1 with some of the most popular young female singers of the '90s, including Carey and Celine Dion. The younger stars were blown offstage by the force of Franklin's talent...
Radcliffe issued a statement acknowledging onlythat the college had been involved in a "strategicplanning process," an internal review of theachievements of the '90s and goals for theupcoming decade. Wilson and Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr'71, chairman of the Board of Trustees, refused toprovide any future information regarding thesediscussions--or their alleged talks with Harvardofficials...
...many ways it is a new beginning for Harvard women's squash as it begins its post-dynastic years. For just the second time in the '90s, the team will hope for a bad year for streaks...