Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forget Johnson and Andy Pettitte, all year long the AL's most feared left-handers, a combined 0-4, with a better than 7.00 ERA. And while Seattle's bullpen was typically awful, even the mighty Mariano Rivera, purveyor of the awe-inspiring "easy gas" high-90s fastball, succeeded in blowing his tenth save by serving up Alomar's backbreaking Game 4 blast...
...liberal (pro-choice, pro-gay rights)-seemed to offer the perfect combination to lure the Republican Party back to the center from its Buchananite extremes. With their message of keeping the government out of the pocketbook and the bedroom, they could sell the all-important swing voters of the '90s-white middle- and upper-middle class suburbanites-the original of the Republican-Lite itch that Bill Clinton has used so effectively to twice beat the Republicans at their own game...
...huge scenario from some gifted, twisted lad--Oliver Stone, age 20--that the older Stone chopped down and published. But the two are eerie twins. They share the need to go too far, to push the vocabulary of words and pictures. The young Stone even envisions himself in the '90s, a zillionaire aswirl in controversy. "Of course many rumors abounded about me, mostly sinister...
...90s, what? Punk poets came and went, Kurt Cobain chief among them, and a folk-rock movement arose again--neo-folkies like Beck, Indigo Girls, Laura Love, all charged with youth but drawing on the past. Where was Dylan? His albums in the '90s have been mostly cautious retoolings--CDs laden with aged, unreleased material or dusty covers of traditional folk songs...
...Mini with a national ad campaign, hoping to spur the 10-fold increase in sales seen in last fall's test markets and help the U.S. join an expected burgeoning world market. "The cassette and the CD didn't explode in the early years," Viken points out. "In the '90s, I think we're all a little impatient...