Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Open-mike readings, at which anyone can get up and perform, are another popular audience booster in the clubs. Social issues, sexual and racial politics, and the general crassness of American culture are popular topics. "In the Persian Gulf bodies rained,/ Arab jets all worked in vain,/ The modern world is at the flood," declaims Joe Roarty at Chicago's Cafe Voltaire. Earnestness and energy also count for a lot. Donna Wozinsky, 36, a spunky special-education teacher from Queens, whose verse tends toward the excruciatingly personal ("I, the sperm bank of your soul . . .") attends at least three open-mike...
...Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, the Peace Prize was the first major morale booster in more than a year. Although she was already under house arrest at the time, her party won a landslide victory in the May 1990 parliamentary elections, taking 392 of the 485 seats. But the generals refused to surrender power. Instead they arrested scores of elected parliamentarians and hundreds of Buddhist monks...
...come up with a startling idea on how to beat nuclear swords into plowshares while earning some desperately needed hard currency. Commerce Department officials say a Soviet firm called NPO Energiya wants to convert nuclear-missile-bearing submarines into floating launching pads for satellites. The company, which developed booster rockets for the Soviet space shuttle, explains that once the warheads are removed, the sub-borne ballistic missiles can be used to carry commercial payloads into space. On the other hand, will all those unemployed Soviet nuclear experts be put to peaceful use? Despots may be yearning for their advice. Arms...
...various ingredients, including retinyl palmitate, and vitamins E and F, that together "fix, replenish or repair the barrier function of the skin." Shisheido touts Bio-Performance as a "super-revitalizer" that awakens the "skin's youthful balance." Avon is pushing three different antiaging treatments: BioAdvance (with vitamin A), Collagen Booster (vitamin C) and a new product to be introduced next year, Aneu (alpha-hydroxy acids). As for cellulite nostrums, Arden promotes its gel and moisturizer by citing clinical tests "from a renowned university in France." Lancome says its gel can provide "relief" from cellulite in two to four weeks...
...morale booster, the White House was inclined to give reformers at least some economic reward. But if Gorbachev is to preserve his role as the leader of perestroika, a Bush Administration official warned, "he's going to have to move and move pretty quickly." Would greater trade, aid and investment -- pegged to concrete Soviet reforms -- make a difference? Most analysts remained profoundly skeptical. Meyer stressed that "there are no financial institutions in the Soviet Union capable of absorbing in a useful way large amounts of aid, at either the Union level or the republic level." Outside of German loans, Western...