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...school that they'll never make more than $19,000 a year. We went to movies with names like Revenge of the Nerds--which even if no one knew it then were about exactly this new class division--then had our real-life nerds' revenge in the roaring '90s...
...fantasy-filled, you-can-have-it all '90s, John Peterman was the ultimate purveyor of armchair-adventure shopping. His floridly written catalog pulled in a cult following--and $75 million a year in sales--by hawking evocative clothing, furniture and collectibles to upscale shoppers. Peterman outfitted Frank Sinatra and Oprah Winfrey and got a priceless p.r. boost when the TV megahit Seinfeld parodied him on its show...
...late '90s, Peterman's expansion plans got out of control. His catalogs bulged with more than 100 pages--up from an initial seven a decade earlier. He added 10 J. Peterman stores in 1998. His five-year business plan called for 70 by 2002, the buildup topped with an IPO. "I took my eye off the brand focus and put it on rapid retail expansion," he recalls. "That was my mistake...
...recently were oil and water: pop, punk, rap and heavy metal. This practice has become as de rigeur as nipple rings for bands over the last couple years, but it's easy to forget how alien it was to audiences of the recent past. Throughout the bulk of the '90s, the perceived incompatibility of these genres was more than musical; it was subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When the genres did mix, like on the soundtrack for the forgettable 1993 thriller...
...only way for a Moscow-based journalist to get a guaranteed summer break, in the early '90s, was to go on vacation when Mikhail Gorbachev did. Leave him alone for 24 hours, someone joked, and he would dissolve another part of the Evil Empire. This theory blew up in our faces in August 1991, when the Soviet leadership's old guard made a last, despairing attempt to turn back time by seizing power in the name of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom...