Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even trendiness itself, or at least the slavish chronicling of consumer ephemera, has the taint of the passe. Many magazines that served as arbiters of hipness have gone out of business, including Egg, 7 Days, Smart and Fame. In the meantime, Vanity Fair thrives by sticking to cover subjects that have the rosy glow of maturity: Farrah and Ryan, Sly Stallone, Madonna. At the same time, such magazines as Workbench, Homeowner and 1001 Home Ideas are briskly building up their circulation. One of the hottest newcomers is Countryside, a Hearst glossy about the virtues of conservation, rural landscapes and life...
...methodical, scientific quest has turned into a wild crapshoot. In more than 60 laboratories around the world, researchers are working with at least 40 different concoctions in pursuit of one of medicine's most urgent goals: the development of an AIDS vaccine. Any team that succeeds will reap fame, fortune and the satisfaction of possibly wiping out a disease that ranks among the deadliest scourges ever to afflict humanity...
Oddly enough, if the answer to either of these questions is yes, Mather will suit you perfectly. On the one hand, the house's high concentration of sweatpants and baseball caps is rapidly increasing its fame as "the other Kirkland." On the other side of the spectrum, you'd be hard-pressed to find more math majors congregated in one place outside the third floor of the Science Center than you would in Mather...
...still read the sports pages, but we tried to avoid war imagery to describe third-down situations. Roger Clemens became the first $5 million baseball player, and Pete Rose was barred from the Hall of Fame. George Foreman will soon be fighting for the heavyweight championship, and Sugar Ray Leonard has retired. We think he means it this time...
...Morrison, the satanic seraph of psychedelic rock, lighted his share of libidinal fires before his death in 1971, but is his story worth $40 million of somebody's money and 77 min. of your time? Not the way Oliver Stone's tells it, as a display of pop fame's wretched excess. That was evident back in the '60s; 1991 is no time to wallow in the mire...