Word: documents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book thrives with the energetically bizarre, and rightly so, since it purports to be the document of "the global teens," the MTV generation born after the twentysomethings who were featured in Coupland's first novel, Generation X, published in 1991. But Generation X was so peppered with trademarks, jargon and faux chic that the cardboard characters collapsed. Although fictional trademarks also abound in Shampoo Planet (everything from ElviSheet computer software to the KittyWhip Kat Food System), Coupland does a better job of fleshing out these characters because he views them through the prism of conflict: hippie parents...
...never been so embarrassed since I failed to produce the right document when a cop in South Africa, mistaking me for a local, demanded to see my passbook. In fact, that is precisely what Social Security numbers have become in American society--a means of tracking our movements and transactions, wherever we might...
Papaconstantinou denies this charge "categorically: I have never seen any document or heard anything of this sort. We want them ((the Macedonians)) to exist ((as a separate state)); we want them as a buffer zone" between Greece and Serbia. "The authorities in Skopje ((the Macedonian capital)) can change their name to anything except Macedonia," and that will remove "a point of friction in the Balkans...
...Hollywood's shock tactics and the reluctance of critics to attend to -- let alone defend -- Ice- T or Studs or the latest sadistic horror movie. But he doesn't know what to do with it. Instead of just isolating a disturbing tendency in pop culture, he is compelled to document it with suspicious statistics, to draw conspiratorial conclusions, to call for a return in spirit to the movies' puritanical Production Code of the 1930s -- all with the fervor of a modern Martin Luther, an angry evangelist determined to nail his 95 theses not on a church door...
...Nazionale del Lavoro and his attorney Bobby Lee Cook. They say that senior B.N.L. officials in Rome not only approved the loans to Iraq but that the U.S. and Italian governments were aware of the transactions. As proof, Drogoul and Cook introduced what they claim is an internal bank document written in Italian and slipped under Cook's hotel room door last week. The document is an executive summary of meetings between bank executives, Italian government officials and representatives of the U.S. government held in Washington in the spring of 1990, including a White House luncheon attended by Italian Ambassador...