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...Billy Joel River of Dreams (Columbia). The Piano Man time-travels through a song cycle that begins on the emotional edge and ends baptized in hope. Totally '90s in its preoccupation with angst and property values, River also revives a pop era when hooks were called melodies and a strong man could show a sweet side...
...arcane investments of the year were something called derivative securities. Derivatives -- abstractions of stocks, bonds and futures -- are a huge business ($4.5 trillion in contracts) but pose a danger to world financial markets because of lack of regulation. As such, they are often called the junk bonds of the '90s...
...made of solid cherrywood, not veneer. The component timbers are precisely slotted and notched to fit without nails, screws or glue. In each instance, the final component -- for instance, the top of the dining table -- acts as a keystone to hold the item together. It's the '90s ideal: classic, ingenious, unpretentious, real...
...become a documentary filmmaker, she began to shoot short films in the early ’70s. Her other films over the years include “B-Side” (1996), a montage about homelessness and extreme poverty in downtown New York in the ’90s, and “Is This What You Were Born For?” (1981-89), a witty yet deeply affecting series of experimental shorts. Her works have won her countless honors over the years, including Guggenheim Foundation and Fulbright Fellowships. Many of her films are in the permanent collection...
...lines with which to work— “Prepare to hurt, and I don’t mean emotionally, like I do.” The soundtrack for the film mirrors exactly what is wrong with it. The “cool” ’90s songs that the characters sing (“Wannabe” by the Spice Girls) and the not-too-hip band contributing cover songs (the Barenaked Ladies) blatantly expose Disney’s misinterpretation of “Shrek 2”s soundtrack’s success. Young children...