Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life-situations where people are given not much choice. How about arranged marriages? There may be more dissatisfaction with the lack of options but at least, some would argue, young people have less anxiety about personal responsibility for a life-choice. Well, I would prefer to see students be anxious--but able to choose...
Marriage might still have survived if it had not been for the sexual revolution and the radical new notion that one's helpmeet in life should, in addition to everything else, possess erotic skills formerly known to few other than to gigolos and ladies of the night. Now anxious spouses were forced to master concepts such as the G spot and "excitation plateau." Yet no one thought it odd that the person who mowed your lawn or folded your shirts was expected to provide orgasmic experiences at night...
Safeguard the security and "portability" of health insurance, even for workers who change jobs, get laid off or develop chronic illnesses. Though 86% of Americans have health insurance, White House polls have shown that many people are anxious that they will lose their coverage because of layoffs or cutbacks in employer-provided insurance. The Clinton plan would ensure that workers can get insurance at any new employer, at comparable prices, even if they already need medical treatment...
...Utero: inside the womb; before birth. The title is a misnomer. Nirvana has been reborn. Its 1991 album Nevermind was a great leap forward (after Bleach, in 1989), selling more than 4 million copies. Song after song started off with gorgeous guitar hooks, as in the anxious chords that kicked off Smells Like Teen Spirit, or the bouncy bass-guitar strumming that launched Lithium. Its punk-inspired, we-couldn't-care-less ethos seemed to reflect the restless apathy some young people felt toward their times. "Oh well, whatever, nevermind," Cobain sang on Teen Spirit. The strength of Nevermind...
Some of Horn's films, and videos of her performances, can be watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched...