Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several weeks ago, when I first heard of RSI, I was quick to dismiss it as a '90s phenomenon that could only befall computer addicts, attached to their motherboards by a virtual umbilical cord. Alternatively, I wrote RSI off as a trendy psycho-somatic problem for humanities concentrators desperately in need of an extension...
...this kind of pretending. But as someone who has been involved with noir for a while, I am surprised by the sudden resurgence of interest in noir film and fiction. The heyday of noir was in the late '40s and early '50s. Between then and the middle of the '90s, the genre was nearly ignored...
...believe that there is another reason as well. People in the '90s are suddenly being overloaded with information. Between the Internet and the proliferation of beepers and laptops and cell phones, many are constantly getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning...
Often Wurtzel's research doesn't seem to extend much beyond what she's read and reacted to in Esquire. Bitch, in fact, seems intended for people who let all their magazine subscriptions lapse in the late '80s and early '90s and never bothered to ask anyone what they missed. But then, only good girls spend their time in libraries...
MICHAEL CAMERON Wears Pepsi shirt on Coke day: "liberty or death" for the '90s...