Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to know our options. So why did it seem that all those glossy recruiting pamphlets contained fewer choices than did the tacky posters and ridiculous stunts of long ago? Why did it seem as if the same power suit, the same strong handshake, the same future sat behind each and every table...
...spare you the suspense. It should come as no surprise to most undergraduates that the consulting industry constituted the largest category of employers, with a whopping 41 companies sending representatives. Close behind in terms of numbers were the investment banking and computer technology firms, the latter having long shed their Silicon Valley grunge. Here and there were token "alternatives"--Teach for America, the Peace Corps, the Walt Disney Corporation--some of whose employees chose to wear clothes that tended (gasp) more toward casual Fridays than toward Wall Street...
...vision of the subliminal self of the modern male. This string of sympathy for a group of people rarely sympathized with is only the beginning; nipping on the heels of Susan Faludi's much acclaimed study of the betrayal of the American man, these movies divulge further and further behind the cursory Bruce Willis-ized front that American media has loaned to the yuppie male...
...idea of "yuppie angst" seems inherently oxymoronic. Yuppies are clean-cut, clear-headed people with successful jobs, shiny new sport utility vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be all worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become...
...behind is fellow freshman forward Martha Gudiel, who is second on the team with four goals, one of which was a game-winning tally against UW-Milwaukee. And her counterpart, freshman Clayr Mimikos, has proven to be an offensive force as well, tallying three goals on the season for the Bulldogs...