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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The U.S. is in many ways the most pious and morally obsessed of nations outside the Islamic world. Recent polls suggest that 96% of Americans believe in a personal God and that 78% of them think their consciousness will survive death and go, after judgment, to heaven or hell. Its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEKING THE SPIRIT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

Ryder was an erratic painter, and his reputation rests on perhaps a dozen works, most of which are his famous "marines"--dark, concentrated images of the fishing smacks of his New England coastal youth, pitted against wind and wave. They concentrate the Romantic terrors of seascape; in them Ryder showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEKING THE SPIRIT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

As the index of social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIT AND GRIDS | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

The band, which was formed in Olympia, Wash., and took its name from a local road, has its roots in the Riot Grrrl movement of the early '90s, in which groups of young women, inspired by the do-it-yourself aesthetic of punk, started fringy rock bands, fanzines and discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SONGS IN THE KEY OF GLEE | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

At a deeper level, method does matter, of course. Scinece, for example, owes its distinctive character not only to the questions it asks but also to the way it answers them. A good scientific story must be logically coherent and empirically testable as well as interesting. Similarly, the stories historians...

Author: By David Layzer, | Title: Renewing the Core | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

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