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...cover of New Order’s latest album, Get Ready, sports the image of an early 90s-Calvin Klein-esque waif model with paint-splashed pants and ripped T-shirt pointing a digital video camera directly at the prospective consumer...
...when people look to books to satisfy their hunger for topical information, what do they want to read? For a good while, publishers believed they had the answer: entertainment, mostly, though preferably veiled as roundtable-worthy deliberation. They therefore spent much of the 90s working to combine this public desire with the industry’s newfound quick-response ethic. The result? The “instant book”—a cheap and profitable species of paperback. Furthermore, publishers pounced on so-called “hot-button” books, which dealt with the sensational...
LISA BEYER has been doing double duty editing World as well as writing pieces on Osama bin Laden and his network and the roots of Muslim rage toward the U.S. Lisa spent most of the '90s as TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief. Talk to her on AOL, Keyword: Live, on Thursday...
Russia, a great, sentimental hope for corporations through the mid-'90s, looks increasingly serious about its WTO bid and is beginning to undertake the legal reforms necessary for membership. Could the former Soviet republic be a touchstone for advancements on a global scale? Russia's stock market capitalization, about $50 billion, still only approaches that of the United Parcel Service, and what passes for a recession in the U.S. would be a great achievement for Russia. Progress there is incremental, but, some say, palpable. "We're working, in a determined way, to bring to reality some of the things...
...sixties spelled an end, too, for the art of Yoko Ono. After a retrospective in 1971 at the Whitney, Ono focused on music and video composition until a brief return to the art world in 1988 with some bronze casts of earlier works. Scattered pieces in the 90s are of interest (though few are included at MIT), but lack the visionary drama of her first events and performances. Instead, Ono’s idealistic faith in shared values and experiences has been channeled into new works that, lacking her former intellectual rigor, are more consolatory than conceptual...