Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...logic, Helen Hunt--even the name is defiantly sensible--should not be a major multimedia star of the '90s. No one should be, for television and film have become only distantly related media. TV appeals to the broad middle-aged, movies to the young and younger. The living room is the woman's domain, the cineplex a guys' clubhouse. TV bathes in social reassurance; movies strut toward sociopathic threat. Not many performers commute between the two with much profit or comfort. Yet Hunt has one of the 10 highest Q ratings (recognizability plus likability) of all women in entertainment...
...next John Hughes, albeit for a far edgier generation than the one that peopled The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Williamson's calling card may have been an eye for artful carnage, but his staying power derives from his ear for the voice of the '90s teen, whom he describes as "a very self- aware, pop-culture-referenced individual who grew up next to Blockbuster in the self-help, psychobabble...
...These characters have all grown up with the media, and I don't think any of them had a safe upbringing," says Party of Five ingenue and Scream centerpiece Neve Campbell. Her Sidney, a dewy innocent in the original, has morphed in the new film into a quintessentially '90s victim/survivor, achieving a kind of tear-streaked operatic grandeur that, frankly, lends Scream 2 more emotional punch than a slasher sequel really deserves. "Young people have been numbed," she says. "Kevin has a way of capturing that cynicism without being naive...
DIED. HASTINGS KAMUZU BANDA, 90s, Malawi's self-proclaimed President-for-Life whose idiosyncratic tenure was ended by democratic elections in 1994; in Johannesburg. After his country won freedom from Britain in 1964, Banda delayed Africanization and curried favor with apartheid South Africa to bolster the economy...
...JAPANESE THREAT The world's second largest economy, in a severe slump for most of the '90s, could get pushed into depression by the financial crises in Southeast Asia, which gets nearly 40% of all Japanese exports. More alarming, roughly one-third of all loans in Southeast Asia--many now in default--came from fragile Japanese financial institutions. Says University of Chicago political economist Marvin Zonis: "To raise needed liquidity, they might sell their holdings of Treasury securities." Since Japan owns more U.S. Treasury debt than any other nation (more than $300 billion), a sell-off would cause U.S. interest...