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...wave of violence against this urban tribe that has sprung up in Mexico in the last decade. The emo subculture probably existed in your high school before the term even bloomed, the latest movement on a continuum represented by goths in the '80s and alternative rockers in the '90s. In yearbooks, they're the kids who wear exaggerated haircuts and immerse themselves in moody music. In short: the kids jocks have been beating up for decades...
This gulf between moralism and militarism narrowed in the 1980s and '90s. Under Ronald Reagan, conservatives grew more optimistic about exporting American values as they saw democracy spread in the Third World. And under Bill Clinton, liberals became more warlike, backing humanitarian interventions in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo...
Wallpaper's popularity has had ebbs and flows. It fell out of favor in the '90s when faux-painting techniques were preferred. Now some of the most popular wallpaper designs are inspired by haute couture. "On runways, we see embellishments, beading and crystals, which are all new innovations for wallpaper," says Gina Shaw, York's design director. "Black-and-white is also big in fashion, and that has translated to walls." Lovett has taken a cue from that trend. Six months ago, she put a twist on the traditional by papering...
Growing up in Farmington, Conn., Harvard starting pitcher Shawn Haviland watched his favorite team, the New York Yankees, collect a handful of championships in the late ‘90s. Like any young fan, he idolized Derek Jeter, New York’s popular shortstop. So imagine Haviland’s attempt to play it cool when the Yankee captain approached him in the weight room of their training facility in Tampa, Fla., and introduced himself. “I just started laughing hysterically,” the senior righthander remembers. “I said...
Most of the SHoP team, the class of '94 part, started architecture school at a time when the profession was operating in the residue of the recession of the early '90s. With construction in a slump, not many architects were building much in the real world. But even when you can't construct, you can still deconstruct. So some, especially those in school, responded by burrowing deeper into architectural theory?sketching, thinking, devoting themselves to ever more radical, if not plainly buildable, design. It was one of those occasional eras of "paper architecture...