Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...
...Desi Arnaz music video and album are out, featuring his performances on I Love Lucy. The Mambo Kings, featuring a Desi Arnaz character, is coming to the theaters. Look for a boom in bongo sales...
Sticking a ski pole into the ground for leverage and vaulting a couple of meters forward to the accompaniment of rock music from a boom box. Wiggling back and forth on skis around a series of powdery bumps, periodically climbing these hillocks to leap off, flinging one's limbs spread eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path...
...boom shows no signs of slackening. NBC, the one network conspicuously left off the prime-time news bandwagon, will try again in late March with a new show, Dateline NBC, co-anchored by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips. And ABC is currently assembling the staff for yet another news hour, which will compete head-to-head with 60 Minutes on Sunday nights, perhaps as early as this summer...
Living standards have been steadily declining since the oil-rich days of the 1970s, when government largesse fueled a decade-long boom. By February 1989, protests against reduced subsidies and higher prices had turned into rioting and looting that left 300 dead. Discontent has simmered ever since, with occasional regional strikes and violent student demonstrations...