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...think the pendulum is swinging back, and people may want to stay with one company longer," she says. That shift has Sears "feeling pretty good." At the outset of the decade, it would be ironic indeed if one of the first legacies of the New Economy '90s turned out to be a docile class...
...back on the horse. Because if there's one thing that gets Alan Greenspan salivating, it?s a loose labor market. There's not yet a reason to panic - 4.3 percent is a long way from 5 percent, which was as low as unemployment used to get before the '90s came along. A lot of these numbers are the same layoffs we heard about in January, February and March; now they've kicked...
...listening to the new Sonic Youth as a badge of pride, angling the CD player so that it caught people’s eyes. To be in the mosh pit of a Pearl Jam concert. (And yes I know all those references date me as an early 90s teenager rather than a late 90s one.) Or to be 18, going three times a week to clubs, hands in the air for songs that were favorites within those particular clubs but that were completely obscure in the outside world. To hear a song, look across the room to someone else...
...next two exhibitions are video pieces composed by Isaac Julien, a London-based filmmaker who has spent most of the 90s working on film-based installations. His newest piece, “Vagabondia,” is similar to “Inflight” because the artwork in itself has a lot to do with its atmosphere. While walking to the viewing site, you pass through a small hallway that is lined with black egg-crate padding. In front, a subdued red light and mellow chimes entice you to enter. And once inside, the double screen film installation seduces...
Entertainment in the `80s, Novak says, was over-produced and rigidly non-spontaneous-"only valuable as kitsch, kitsch I love." The `90s began a backlash against inauthentic entertainment, where people turned their dials to real tragedy and spectacle: the O.J. trial, Princess Diana, the Clinton scandal...