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...Before Aaliyah broke into films she was breaking the mold in music videos. In the mid-'90s, around the time that she was making her "One in a Million" video, it seemed as if the video form was dead. Finished. Stick a fork in it. The form seemed to lack the power to surprise or even to entertain. Musicians were making videos because they had to, because MTV was the new radio, because perhaps they had a couple of hours to kill after a gig on Saturday. Increasingly, at that time, videos were a thing to ridicule and even...
...move that helped save videos: name checks. In the early '90s, MTV started putting director's names on the video credits; that meant filmmakers would get the credit - or blame - for what they did. If you made a heavy metal video full of half-naked supermodels, your mom was gonna call you. If you made a brilliant video with references to German Expressionism and "The Seventh Seal," perhaps Hollywood was going to call you. So the word began to spread. Videos could lead to feature films. And, not too mysteriously, the quality of films began...
...course, back in the 90s, when the living was easy, Wall Street and the private sector always did love it when Congress was at each others' throats - it kept them from smothering the economy with their clumsy, pork-driven attempts at kindness: Fiscal policies that were enacted too late to be helpful and whose effects always lingered long after they were healthful. When it came to the economy, the best thing Washington could do was stay...
Georgians well remember the civil war of the early '90s. They remember too that Shevardnadze restored order. For years they resisted demonstrations for fear of reviving the years of strife. Now there may be an opportunity for people power to make a difference. But as commentator Rondeli points out, "Shevardnadze always knows how to use critical situations for his benefit and always finds a way to survive." Perhaps, as former speaker Zhvania hopes, "Shevardnadze is pragmatic enough to realize what realistically can be expected...
Perversely, investors figure that a large-scale disaster was just what many of the big insurers needed. Investment gains during the '90s bull market pumped up insurance companies' reserves, which meant that firms jockeying for market share could safely charge lower premiums. But low prices also put the squeeze on the industry's profits. Now that companies are being forced to pay out much of the money they've set aside - some will pay up to $2 billion in claims - that era of cutthroat competition is over...