Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find the whole idea of an Affirmative Action Awareness Day disturbing," said C.J. Mahoney '00, president of the Harvard Republican Club. "It assumes that the people who oppose affirmative action in the '90s are the same people who opposed civil rights in the '60s, which is not true...
...then to his current residence, a farm inIpswich. The one constant through his adventures,though, is music. "My music is earthy, I do a lotof Neil Young songs; however, I like to keep upwith the times so I'm writing a lot or originalmusic that fits in with the 90s realm. My musichas to do with the earth and nature and what isgoing on in my life," says Kerr...
...shadow, sequined nipples and suspenders wrapped around his crotch--Alex from A Clockwork Orange filtered through Madonna's Sex book. Where Bob Fosse's film was a Felliniesque star vehicle for Minnelli, Mendes has deglamorized Cabaret, broadened its human scope and brilliantly re-energized it for the '90s...
...skimming the latest shock-a-minute memoir), does it make a sound? This April--designated National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets--might be a good time to ponder that question. More admired in principle than in practice, more respected than read, American poetry has survived the '90s through a combination of benign neglect, accumulated goodwill and a devoted cult of readers who will still be on deck reciting favorite lines should the poetic Titanic ever go down. But there's good news: the lifeboats have been launched. This publishing season brings three books--J.D. McClatchy...
...squeeze out a fairly good year. Some reasons for that strength: rising productivity, which is at last increasing workers' real wages without pushing up prices, and government policies that Sinai pronounces "eerily" wise. Most important, of course, is the swing from gargantuan budget deficits in the 1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments and a new surge in housing--both "very unusual" for an expansion going into its eighth year. One reason: builders of factories and houses can borrow more easily, because...