Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think in terms of music. I only incorporate things like the TR book because it's directly related to how I became Reagan's biographer, and when I do talk about myself it is for structural reasons. And you are absolutely right about Reagan representing all aspects of America. Indeed, what draws me to people like him and Theodore Roosevelt, as an immigrant, is that in studying men like that it's an education for me [about] the actual folk character of my adopted country. The midwest, which seems so banal and blah to most native Americans...
...America, the Peace Corps and a handful of other name brand non-profits, is mainly a vehicle of the recruiting process. Students will come to pick up free balls and water bottles, see their friends from previous years in suits and positions of prominence. Then, they will rush back to their computers to eagerly hone their resumes and begin deliberating what bars they will frequent next year on Wall Street...
Giuliani's position is simple enough, and right on the ball. But it masks a simmering brew of constitutional, moral and even religious questions. Sound a lot like "Piss Christ" or Robert Mapplethorpe all over again? The same issues boiled over then, and the same issues continue to define America's bitter culture war today. While it may be tempting, therefore, for those of us who support the mayor to just render due kudos and go home, perhaps we should take advantage of this fresh opportunity to explain why he was right--maybe even to propose a just accommodation...
...recent trend in popular film has revealed that violent, angst-ridden sentiments lie beneath the commodified sheen of wealthy, suburban America...
Life's a bitch, and then your Volvo dies. As millennium fever reaches hysterical new heights in the final months of 1999, it seems that everything and everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means...