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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alternative rock's leading lights shouldn't be written off--R.E.M. and Hootie probably both have more than a few big, interesting albums left in them. It's worth remembering too that the music business is cyclic. Every few years critics proclaim that rock is dead, and then a band like Nirvana--or the Sex Pistols before them--comes around and changes everything. Now the hunt is definitely on for the next Next Big Thing. Ska is a candidate, with groups like No Doubt racking up sales. Trip-hop is another contender, with performers such as Tricky and Portishead. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIG THING | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...People seem to think it's cyclic, so maybe there will be jobs after I get out of graduate school," she said...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Seniors See Big Bucks On Horizon | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

...working on gene therapy for cystic fibrosis at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "Unless we do clinical trials, we're never going to learn. You have to test it in the lab on animals, try it in humans and then go back to the lab. It's a cyclic process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAS GENE THERAPY STALLED? | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

Bipolar, or manic, depression is characterizedby cyclic fluctations between depressed states andstates of mania, or hyperactivity...

Author: By Lana Israel, | Title: Students Confront Clinical Despair | 2/8/1995 | See Source »

...election vindicates a hypothesis about the cyclic nature of American politics ... Each phase recurs at roughly 30-year intervals. Thus the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s were conservative periods; and thus Theodore Roosevelt brought in the Progressive Era in 1901, Franklin Roosevelt the New Deal in 1933 and John Kennedy the New Frontier in 1961 ... No one, therefore, should be surprised by the arrival of a new liberal phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crystal Ball | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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