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...terrain. Yet over meals I’ve managed to discuss everything and anything with my friends, from shared childhood memories (sure, “The Cosby Show” was an international hit, but who knew slap bracelets were a worldwide trend in the early ’90s?) to emotional issues (which, as it turns out, are less culturally specific than one might think...
...turned out, all that cusp-ness provided a useful foretaste of the 90s and early 00s, which have been in so many ways (technologically, economically, culturally) a time of extreme flux. At an impressionable age we became accustomed to being both one thing and its seeming opposite (analog and digital, bohemian and bourgeois, old and youngish), which was—I think—a good thing...
...Knows Sumo? The Jockey Underpants Ad Would Be Memorable There is something so last century about the two-sport athlete. Bo Jackson. Deion Sanders. Michael Jordan. Perhaps it was '90s irrational exuberance that caused American jocks to ask themselves: Why excel at just one sport when you could be mediocre at two? That had economists wondering if 30-year-old retired sumo wrestler WAKANOHANA's hankering to play in the NFL could be a harbinger of impending Japanese prosperity. The former grand champion has said he's been more attracted to the gridiron than the dojo since boyhood. It would...
...There were a couple of tumultuous years in the late '80s and early '90s," Nenneman says of the effort...
...Japanese government has spent more money on public works than any other country in the world, but blowing all that cash has been useless. There is a hole in the center of Japan--a deep lack of confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start spending is like encouraging a man strapped to a time bomb to fix his hair. They have other things on their mind. That has paralyzed reform...