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Throughout the '80s and '90s, Central Square saw a gradual decrease in the number of businesses that made it popular...
...Bulls wallow at 12-38, 22 games behind the Pacers, Starks has a point. Nevertheless, his trade request must also have something to do with emotion he carried into all 25 Knick play-off games against the Bulls over the course of the 90s...
...ordeal reminded me a bit of a movie from the early '90s, Muriel's Wedding. Muriel, a pathetic and overweight Abba-loving Aussie, weds a handsome Olympic swimmer she does not know so that the Olympic committee can consider him an Australian for competition. One of the movie's taglines claims, "She's not just getting married, she's getting even." Muriel was ostensibly rebelling against the ridicule and banter she endured as a lonely single woman. The film evoked pity and sympathy from audiences across the globe...
...almost every aspect of life speed to dizzying proportions, and in the future attention spans will get shorter than we can imagine. The time it takes to make us laugh will thus be the true test of the most successful entertainer. Stand-up comedy, nearly extinct in the '90s, will have trouble surviving at all. The reason? No time to go to a club to hear a live human being tell jokes, or wait through 45 minutes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien before the stand-up appears. People looking for a laugh will simply log on and sift...
...their arrangement is wonderfully transparent or transparently absent. Group shows force viewers to question whether those traditional distinctions of style, between figuration and abstraction, formalism and conceptualism, are useful any longer. Rather than rigidly opposed modes of creation, we have begun to think about them as mutually informative. The '90s, to a great degree, were about developing different models to help us attend to difference. At the same time, retreating behind the defense of pluralism has been blamed for a loss of critical rigor. Visual Memoirs is an example of an installation that walks, and occasionally wobbles on, the line...