Word: epochs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This destruction and rebirth in the news business is not the tragic passing of a golden era, the frightening end of high-quality journalistic output, or the downright terrifying onset of an epoch of public corruption unchecked by an active press. The talent that enters the industry will be the very same; their desire to build reputation and trust will continue. Their principles and standards of conduct, never perfect and always human, will carry over into the new economy. Even the customers of the news—citizens desirous of being well informed or requiring certain information—will...
...remixing the greatest hits of the past. (Think: post-Modern architecture, pop music based on sampling, '60s-style shift dresses, pseudo-midcentury home décor.) Since we're now finished with a 25- or 30-year-long era in both politics and economics, maybe a new cultural epoch will emerge as well. Maybe more of the next big things will be actually, thrillingly...
...grown steadily since, thanks to both Republicans and Democrats. The latest Congress filibustered 112 times, 51 of which were successful. The institutionalization of the filibuster is perhaps the premier bipartisan accomplishment of the last two decades, even as it is obviously a product of the hyper-partisanship of this epoch...
...blossoming of a new European cinema in the decades following the Second World War marked the beginning of a distinct cultural epoch on the continent. The 50s and 60s brought a generation of cinematic geniuses like Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Federico Fellini to light, along with a diverse set of styles whose ambition and vision are still tremendously influential. But the future of filmmaking in Europe was not so bright, nor its future so clear, in the last days of the war. By 1945, the national film industries that hadn’t been hijacked for propaganda purposes...
...rock LPs, the band pioneered a sound that fit somewhere between the fury of second-generation post-punk and the ragged grace of jangle pop. Releases like 1989’s “President Yo La Tengo” look ahead to alternative rock and the last major epoch of indie rock, with a balance of shaggy guitar lines and feedback loops screwed against a subdued but gleeful pop framework. The band’s classic trilogy of mid-90s albums, cresting with 1997’s near-perfect “I Can Hear the Heart Beating...