Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maturity of the national success brings with it, paradoxically, a diminution and dispersal. Hierarchies flatten out. Presidents of the U.S. and lesser leaders will be ground down, as the great families were. Scandals, like boll weevils (or special prosecutors), will chew into their administrations. Anyone's 15 minutes of fame is liable to end in a poofing flameout of indignity...
Jerry Rubin, the Yippie-turned-Yuppie credited with the sixties' chant, "Don't trust anyone over 30," has died two weeks after he was hit by a car while jaywalking in Los Angeles. Rubin, 56, gained fame as one of the Chicago Seven who led bloody protests against the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, then wore judicial robes into court -- inviting nearly 200 contempt citations -- while being tried on conspiracy charges in connection with the riots. He later became a tailored businessman, selling health foods and networking on Wall Street, and once said he cut his hair and shaved...
Afternoons are spent panhandling the tourists, especially around Mann's Chinese Theater and the Walk of Fame. When night falls, the tourists disappear and the city becomes hell's Disneyland. Hollywood Boulevard is popular for hanging out, usually at the corner of Cherokee, while Sunset Strip features straight prostitution and Santa Monica Boulevard specializes in the gay sex trade. Abandoned buildings serve as "squats," the makeshift homes inhabited by as many as several dozen youths. Entombed by the thick plywood nailed to the windows and doors, the youths live with drugs, rats and human waste...
With regard to athletic ineptitude, Harvard is not alone, but together with the rest of the Ivies. The Yale Bowl, which once filled to watch the likes of its 1969 team of Brian Dowling of Doonesbury fame and Calvin Hill, the future Dallas Cowboy All-Pro, never fills for football games...
...Hoop Dreams" is the story of viscious "hopes" of cultural pathology and unrequited "dreams" of evanescent fame. There are moments of extraordinary grace along the way, some intimations of hope and the occasional tremendous jam. But these moments are fleeting. As long as these cycles keep on spinning and these misguided dreams are dreamt, there can be little hope for William Gates and Arthur Agee--of, for that matter...