Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just awful to be a young adult in America today. Movies venerate our elders; ads fetishize the mature body. And there's nary a million to be found in the new economy for, say, twentysomething computer whizzes...
...investors who have been at the game longer than six months may still have sizable profits. The carnage has been largely confined to pure Internet stocks--such retailers as Amazon.com and eBay; communities like iVillage.com and TheGlobe.com media companies Marketwatch.com and TheStreet. com; and portals such as Yahoo and America Online. Many stocks that benefit from the Internet but don't depend on it to sell their goods have held up well. IBM is up 35% since Internet stocks peaked in April...
...October of 1997, three young actors went into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to play in a horror movie. Twenty-two months later, their film was a smash...and the talk not just of Hollywood but of America. You could hardly walk down a bustling street last week or log on to a website without tripping over that ominous incantation "Blair Witch." The impact, sudden and seismic, of The Blair Witch Project is utterly unprecedented. Never has a--let's be honest--weird movie budgeted at a ludicrously low $35,000 stormed both the box office and the national...
Most of the country, that is, except for Berkeley, the city that invented the Sixties. This university town across the bay from San Francisco may be the only place in America where a cry of "power to the people" isn't hopelessly outmoded and ironic. Berkeley's storied liberalism is still in evidence: On the campus of the University of California, for instance, a marker on Sproul Plaza declares the spot "shall not be a part of any nation...
...article entitled "50 Big Mouths We Hope Will Never Shut Up", Talk Magazine named Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Reverend in Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes two of the "Best Talkers in America...