Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other more archaic Class Day traditions have been discarded along with the circus elephants and clowns in favor of ones more suited to students of the '90s...
Nearly 80 years later, Fitzgerald's words speak even more truly to my generation than they did to his: We are children cradled to the sound of a crooning Bob Dylan and formed in the materialistic '80s and sober '90s. We have romantic conceptions of the true meaning of student activism and have had austere lessons in the failure of pithy aphorisms and the inevitability of complexity and, often, inaction. We are a generation burdened with the memory of attempted change and of subsequent half-success or failure...
While sectarian murders and bombings continued apace around the province, an informal cease-fire gradually took hold within the city in the early '90s. "Both sides realized that they could not win a military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside after serving 10 years in prison. To encourage the move away from violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that...
...fable Gattaca, which has much the same story (in the near future, one human man is surrounded by handsome humanoids). Niccol says the only source material he needed for The Truman Show was his own paranoia. "I often felt people were lying to me," he declares. But as the '90s devolved into media spectacles of Bronco chases, freeway suicides and Jerry Springer grudge matches, the conceit of TV as worldwide psychodrama seemed prescient. "I used to think the idea was ludicrously farfetched," Niccol says, "but now I have to wonder...
...ubiquitous Windows line). One would own software products (titles like Word and Office). The third would own Internet businesses, including browsers. It's a long-shot scenario, but even if it comes to pass, it's nothing for investors to fear. Synergy may be the corporate watchword of the '90s, and Microsoft would lose some of that. But the history of corporate breakups is encouraging. The various pieces spun off from the original AT&T have, if figured as one, turned in consistent, market-beating returns. Forced to grow independently, the pieces of Microsoft would do no less...