Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that was the first AIDS story that got told, that's what sells in the mainstream. It's the independents who are dealing with original subject matter, and they are finally getting some attention: Paris Is Burning, My Own Private Idaho, Poison; there has been a gay film boom...
...Anita": Hollywood, in its own tokenized way, is responding to that boom, vaguely approaching the question of gay/lesbian/bi lifestyle on L.A.Law, Thirtysomething, The Simpsons, Roseanne...
Sandi: In 1886-86, there was also a gay film boom, but they were all love stories, they were safer. These films being made now are even more experimental, in the ways in which they deal with race and class...
...housing sector, which accounts for one-fifth of U.S. industrial output, was one of the first industries to collapse under the weight of the recession. Last year, following the building boom of the go-go 1980s, housing suffered its worst decline since World War II: new home starts plunged 15%, to 1 million units. But with falling interest rates and the lure of tax credits enticing consumers back into the market, the industry is showing surprising signs of rebirth...
Nowhere has the economic engine been sputtering more loudly than in Detroit, where car sales had climbed 3% during the first two months of this year only to slide 6.9% in the period from March 11 to March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period...